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Britain’s newly-announced £2.5bn military aid package for Ukraine shows it will stand alongside its ally and is “not going anywhere”, Rishi Sunak has said.
The Prime Minister, speaking on a surprise visit to Kyiv alongside Volodymyr Zelensky, said the drones, artillery shells and air defences being shipped over would send a “strong signal” to the Russian President.
“The aid that we’ve got in place already runs through to the early part of this year. So we’re acting in advance of that expiring with a new commitment of two and a half billion pounds – more than we’ve provided in previous years,” he said.
“That represents the seriousness of the situation here and our determination to stand with Ukraine. And that’s why I’m here on my first foreign visit of this year, the first foreign leader to visit Ukraine this year.”
Mr Sunak added that he wanted to “send a strong signal of support to the Ukrainian people, but also a strong signal of support that Vladimir Putin needs to recognise we’re not going anywhere”.
It comes as Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president and ally of Mr Putin, warned “the arrogant British” that using the weaponry against
