2nd LD Writethru: British PM says no lethal weapons to arm Ukraine "at this stage"

ritain is not supplying lethal equipment to Ukraine "at this stage," but will send British service personnel to advise the Ukrainians, British Prime Minister David Cameron told the Parliament's Liaison Committee on Tuesday.

"We are not at this stage of supplying lethal equipment. We have announced our series of non-lethal equipment ... which we have already said we will give to Ukraine," Cameron said.

"Over the course of the next months, we are going to be deploying British service personnel to advise a wide range of training, from technical, intelligence, logistics, to medical care which is something else they have asked for," he elaborated.

Cameron reiterated the need for a diplomatic solution, rather than a military one, to the Ukraine issue.

"I think the reason for not going further is we don't believe fundamentally there is some military solution to this issue. There needs to be a diplomatic solution, which I think should be enabled by sanctions and pressure and economic ways of Europe and America," he explained.

"But obviously where we can help our friends in non-lethal equipment, we should," he told British lawmakers. Endit