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Britain will not flinch in its support for Ukraine, the Defence Secretary told allies at a virtual meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has urged allies to accelerate military support for Ukraine, warning that delays in delivering weapons and funding are costing lives.
Ukraine has asked allied countries to provide 300 Patriot interceptor missiles from their existing stocks as Kyiv attempts to strengthen its air defences before another winter of Russian missile and drone attacks.
The UK is expanding defence industrial cooperation with NATO allies and international partners, including the United States, as part of a wider effort to strengthen production capacity, supply chains and military readiness.
Equipment that would not survive the war in Ukraine has no place in the British armed forces, Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry Luke Pollard has told Mansion House.
The Ministry of Defence has set out how £16 billion of UK military support for Ukraine has been allocated across five financial years, while declining to provide a departmental breakdown of the Government’s wider non-military assistance.
A British man has been charged under the National Security Act over alleged contact with a GRU-linked group controlled by Russian military intelligence.
The Ministry of Defence has ruled out adapting the RAF's A400M Atlas fleet for aerial firefighting, despite being aware of an Airbus system currently under development for the transport aircraft.
Germany will transfer additional Patriot and AIM-9 missiles from Bundeswehr stocks to Ukraine while financing tens of thousands of long-range artillery rounds, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has announced.
Sweden is moving its future fighter beyond studies and into flying demonstrators, with Saab awarded work to mature crewed and uncrewed tech through 2028.
