The Government has announced other £ 450 million or military support to kyiv, since the United Kingdom and Germany organize a 50 -nations meeting in Brussels.
Defense officials are convened to “stack” Russian President Vladimir Putin and force him to put an end to his invasion of Ukraine, said the Secretary of Defense of the United Kingdom, John Healey.
“We must take a step forward to detail the Russian aggression by continuing to reinforce the defenses of Ukraine,” he added.
The package includes funds for hundreds of thousands of drones, anti -tank mines and repairs to military vehicles.
Around £ 350 million will be provided by the United Kingdom, with additional funds from Norway through the International Fund led by the United Kingdom for Ukraine.
The package includes £ 160 million to provide repairs and maintenance to vehicles and equipment that the United Kingdom has already tested to Ukraine.
A “nearby fighting” military aid package, with radar systems, anti -tank mines and sinks of thousands of drones, with a value of more than £ 250 million is also part of the package, said the government.
Healey said the group’s work “is vital to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position.”
“We cannot endanger peace by forgetting war, so today’s main package will obtain support for the First Line of Ukraine,” he said.
Speaking at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels, Healey added: “2025 is the critical year for war in Ukraine, and this is a critical moment.
“Our work as defense ministers is to obtain urgent military aid in the hands of Ukrainian war combatants.”
The other nations urged in the meeting to “look stronger to what you can do the most.”
The United Kingdom’s promise of financing follows a series of military promises to Ukraine from the United Kingdom.
Last month, Sir Keir Starmer announced a £ 1.6 billion missiles for Ukraine, After a summit of European leaders in London, in addition to a loan of £ 2.2 billion to provide more military aid backed by gains of frozen Russian assets.
Lib Dess said that the support package announced on Friday was “small change” and requested that the Government measure the Russian assets in Great Britain to provide more funds to Ukraine.
“While we welcome any increase in support for Ukraine, this package is a small change compared to what is necessary to combat the Barbara War of Putin,” said the party’s defense spokeswoman, Helen Maguire.
HEALY and his German counterpart, the Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius, co -chairing the Friday meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, which had the traditional leg organized by the United States Secretary of Defense until Donald Trump became president in January.
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Healey said that the United States Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseeth, was attending the Virtualy Friday meeting, like Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zensky.
The meeting follows a similar meeting of Defense Ministers of 30 countries in the Franco-British “Coalition of the provisions”Who with Brussels to discuss the installation of a force in Ukraine to guarantee lasting peace.
Healey said he did not imagine installing a peace maintenance force that “would separate the sides currently in the contact line,” but added that reinforcing Ukraine’s armies would be a key part of the plan.
Kaja Kallas, head of the EU Foreign Policy, said that the role played by a peacekeeping force should be discussed more among the “coalition of the provisions”, a group of nations that have pledged to be with Ukraine.
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Trump once said the war in Ukraine in less than 24 hours, but far, his attempts to close the conflict only produced limited success.
In March, Putin rejected Trump’s call for high immediate and complete fire of a month – What Kyiv had agreed, on the other hand, only said that this would stop attacks against energy infrastructure.
Despite limited success, the United States efforts to negotiate a fire seem to continue. Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, arrived in Russia on Friday, where he will meet with Putin, according to the US news site. UU. Axios.
Meanwhile, the fight between the Ukrainian and Russian troops has intensified last week, the chording to the Ukrainian military leaders, who said that the assaults on the front line increased by 30%.
It is although these assaults are part of a spring offensive in Russia. kyiv believes that Moscow is a preparation for a great renewed assault, with tens of thousands of troops that are believed to have gathered along the border with Ukraine.
On the day of the day, Russia attacked Ukraine with waves of drones, wounding at least four people in the Jharkiv region, said the regional governor. The drones from Ukraine were also intercepted in the regions of Kursk and Belgorod, Russian state media reported.
Earlier this week, Zensky publicly recognized for the first time that his troops are active in the Belgorod de Russia region, the border of Ukraine. Ukrainian troops have also fought in the Kursk region of Russia; He thought Russia has resumed most of the territory.
