-Britain will present one other 1 billion kilos ($1.2 billion) of army assist to Ukraine, the British authorities mentioned on Wednesday, as NATO branded Russia the largest “direct menace” to Western safety.
The funding will go in the direction of boosting Ukraine’s defence capabilities, together with air defence programs, uncrewed aerial automobiles, new digital warfare gear and hundreds of items of apparatus for Ukrainian troopers.
“UK weapons, gear and coaching are reworking Ukraine’s defences in opposition to this onslaught. And we'll proceed to face squarely behind the Ukrainian individuals to make sure Putin fails in Ukraine,” Prime Minister Boris Johnson mentioned in an announcement.
The newest funding comes after Britain mentioned in Could it will present a further 1.3 billion kilos in army assist and assist to Ukraine, and takes the UK’s whole army and financial assist to three.8 billion kilos this yr.
Ukrainian troops have additionally began coaching in Britain after Johnson provided to launch a serious operation with the potential to coach as much as 10,000 troopers each 120 days.
At a NATO summit dominated by Russia’s invasion, which Moscow says is a “particular army operation” to rid Ukraine of harmful nationalists, NATO agreed plans to modernise Kyiv’s armed forces, saying it stood totally behind Ukrainians’“heroic defence of their nation”.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned in a video link-up with the summit in Madrid that Ukraine wanted $5 billion a month for its defence and safety.
($1 = 0.8251 kilos)
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