The UK plans to provide Ukraine with the largest military aid package in history. This is to be announced by British PM Rishi Sunak during his visit to Poland.
This is reported on the website of the British government.
It is noted that Sunak will arrive in Poland on Tuesday to announce a major increase in military support for Ukraine, including £500 million in additional military funding and the largest supply of vital equipment in British history.
He will meet with Polish PM Donald Tusk and the leaders will hold talks with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Warsaw on European security and support for Ukraine. Sunak will then travel to Germany to meet with Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin.
The additional funding of £500 million will be used to rapidly deliver much-needed ammunition, air defense equipment and drones.
The largest ever package of equipment from the UK includes:
- 60 boats including offshore raiding craft, rigid raiding craft and dive boats as well as maritime guns
- more than 1,600 strike and air defence missiles, as well as additional Storm Shadow long-range precision-guided missiles.
- more than 400 vehicles, including 160 protected mobility ‘Husky’ vehicles, 162 armoured vehicles and 78 all-terrain vehicles.
- nearly 4 million rounds of small arms ammunition.
"Defending Ukraine against Russia’s brutal ambitions is vital for our security and for all of Europe. If Putin is allowed to succeed in this war of aggression, he will not stop at the Polish border.," Sunak said.
Earlier, we wrote that Denmark will deliver F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine in the summer of 2024.