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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Dan Sabbagh

UK military aid to Ukraine could rise to £500m, MPs told

A Challenger 2 tank during a training exercise on Salisbury Plain
A Challenger 2 tank during a training exercise on Salisbury Plain in 2020. Photograph: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images

The UK has supplied £200m of military aid to Ukraine, the defence secretary has said, as he confirmed Britain would send a “small number” of Stormer missile launchers to Ukraine and offer a deployment of Challenger 2 tanks to Poland.

In a statement to MPs, Ben Wallace said gifts of weapons by Britain could eventually total £500m, and he said 15,000 Russian soldiers had died since the invasion began on 24 February.

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