Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Britain has no plans to send its military to Ukraine, Reuters said.

As the agency reports, citing Sunak's statement on Sunday, there are currently no immediate plans to send military instructors to Ukraine. The prime minister rejected comments from the British defense minister, who suggested that troops could conduct training in the country.

"To date, Britain and its allies have avoided a formal military presence in Ukraine to reduce the risk of a direct conflict with Russia," according to the statement.

The agency said British defence minister Grant Shapps, who was appointed to the role last month, said in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph newspaper that he wanted to deploy military instructors to Ukraine, in addition to training Ukrainian armed forces in Britain or other Western countries.

Hours after that interview was published, Sunak said there were no immediate plans to send British troops to Ukraine.

" What the defence secretary was saying was that it might well be possible one day in the future for us to do some of that training in Ukraine," Sunak told reporters at the start of the governing Conservative Party's annual conference in Manchester.

"But that's something for the long term, not the here and now. There are no British soldiers that will be sent to fight in the current conflict," he said.