Ukraine’s president visited the UK on Monday for talks with the UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak. In a tweet, Volodymyr Zelenskiy said: “The UK is a leader when it comes to expanding our capabilities on the ground and in the air. This cooperation will continue today. I will meet my friend Rishi. We will conduct substantive negotiations face to face and in delegations.”
Sunak said the UK would be “sustaining our support” for Ukraine as he prepared to meet Zelenskiy. In a statement, the prime minister said: “This is a crucial moment in Ukraine’s resistance to a terrible war of aggression they did not choose or provoke. They need the sustained support of the international community to defend against the barrage of unrelenting and indiscriminate attacks that have been their daily reality for over a year. We must not let them down.”
Britain would send hundreds of new long-range attack drones with a range of over 120 miles to Ukraine, the government said. “Today the prime minister will confirm the further UK provision of hundreds of air defence missiles and further unmanned aerial systems including hundreds of new long-range attack drones with a range of over 200km,” it said in a statement.
