This war is already started as the Russians killed ten British subjects on the Malaysian airliner they shot down.
Send 1,000 hunting rifles with mil-dot scope, 500 rounds each, and 1,000 mil-dot reticle spotting scopes. Teach 2,000 people how to shoot (3 weeks), how to hide (2 weeks), how to navigate (1 week) and basic first aid (1 week). Assume one week to in-process. In 8 weeks, you can field 1,000 basic sniper teams.
In 6 months, you would have somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,500 sniper teams (assuming some losses). If these sniper teams took 1 shot and wounded or killed 1 combatant per day, in 1 month the losses to the Russian / separatist forces would be enormous. I am of the opinion that after 2 months, the Ukrainians would be running out of targets.
Interesting
Feeling nostalgic?
"Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh! The NLF is going to win!"
"Make love, not war"
advisors are going to make such a huge difference between Russia and an under-equipped nation
/sarc
I don’t know, what British advisers started a war?
Sending advisers doesn’t get anyone involved in a war.
The Russians must be enjoying a good laugh.
If the British prime minister were serious about helping the Ukrainians defeat the Russians, which is the only way the Ukrainians will ever be able to live normal lives again, he would be sending large tanks, artillery, etc., into Ukraine instead of mere advisors.
In fact, if the British prime minister were actually serious about sending advisors, he would have kept silent about his plans and secretly infiltrated the advisors into Ukraine so that the Russians wouldn’t be alerted to their presence. All the Russians have to do now is wait until the new British Ukrainian Advisory Headquarters is set up near Kiev or wherever and bomb it to smithereens before a single shred of advice can be received by the poor Ukrainians.
British troops in the Crimea, looking a lot like 1853.