Rishi Sunak visits Kyiv after announcing rise in UK military aid to Ukraine to £2.5bn - eviltoast

The UK prime minister, Rishi Sunak, is visiting Ukraine on Friday to meet his counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, as the UK announced it would provide further military aid to the country over the coming year.

The UK has been one of Kyiv’s staunchest supporters since Russia’s invasion and Sunak said Britain would boost its support in the next financial year to £2.5bn, an increase of £200m on the previous two years.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    And Democrats are damned if they do and damned if they don’t because they know Europe will step up to the plate if America stops funding Ukraine out of sheer desperation. And Republicans want to harm our relations with the EU, so they’re all for that.