Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged the U.K. will provide air defense equipment worth 50 million pounds ($59 million) to help protect Ukrainians from a barrage of Russian strikes on critical infrastructure.
The U.K. government announced the plan after a previously announced visit to Kyiv by Sunak on Saturday, his first since taking office in October.
“While Ukraine’s armed forces succeed in pushing back Russian forces on the ground, civilians are being brutally bombarded from the air,” Sunak said after meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.