British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is about to announce a new $304m package deal of army useful resource for Ukraine to strengthen its counteroffensive in opposition to Russia.
The package deal includes “loads of lots of rounds of artillery” and goals to ensure “a consistent waft of essential artillery ammunition to Ukraine for the duration of 2023”, a announcement from the top minister’s workplace introduced on Monday.
Sunak will make the declaration in the course of a summit of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) in Latvia afterward Monday, his workplace stated.
The JEF summit brings collectively leaders from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom, and changed into known as to talk about the “ongoing efforts to counter Russian aggression withinside the Nordic and Baltic regions”, the announcement stated.
At the assembly, Sunak will name on Nordic, Baltic and Dutch opposite numbers to hold or exceed 2022 degrees of aid for Ukraine in 2023.
“The UK is already Europe’s main company of protecting useful resource to Ukraine, inclusive of sending Multiple Launch Rocket Systems and recently, one hundred twenty five anti-plane guns,” the announcement added.
“We have additionally supplied extra than 100,000 rounds of ammunition due to the fact that February, with the deliveries at once related to a success operations to retake territory in Ukraine.”
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, the United Kingdom has dedicated some $7.43bn in useful resource, in step with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, a Germany-primarily based totally institution that tracks aid for Kyiv.
The UK is the second-largest donor country to Ukraine after the United States, which has pledged some $51bn in humanitarian, economic and army useful resource, in step with the Kiel Institute.
Sunak’s workplace stated the British chief had up to date Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the today’s useful resource remaining week.
The pair had met in man or woman while Sunak visited Kyiv remaining month.
Zelenskyy is in the meantime predicted to cope with the JEF summit withinside the Latvian capital, Riga, through video link, in step with Sunak’s workplace.
The JEF assembly will even speak similarly air defence aid for Ukraine, which has been scrambling to fend off Russian missile assaults on its essential infrastructure, inclusive of its electricity grid, it stated.
The discussions in Riga will even contact on aid for Finland and Sweden in advance in their accession to NATO, it added.
