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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

UK supplying Ukraine with anti-tank weapons, MPs told

Members of the Kyiv territorial defence unit.
Members of the Kyiv territorial defence unit. Ben Wallace told MPs the UK move was intended to be defensive. Photograph: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images

Britain has begun supplying Ukraine with new light anti-tank weapons in response to “the increasingly threatening behaviour from Russia”, the defence secretary, Ben Wallace, has announced.

The ratcheting up of military support comes as the Kremlin continues to increase its troop deployment by moving forces into Belarus, which borders Ukraine to the north, and is considered the most likely route for any invasion.

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