London allocates half a billion pounds to help Ukraine

The UK government is providing Ukraine with the largest aid package in the country’s history, amounting to $617 million (£500 million). This was announced by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, transmits Guardian.

The additional funding announced will go towards the rapid delivery of urgently needed ammunition, air defense systems, drones and engineering equipment to Ukraine, the statement says. statement British government.

The publication notes that together with the new aid package, the total amount of funds allocated by the UK for Ukraine in 2024 will reach three billion 700 million dollars.

The military aid package prepared by the UK Ministry of Defense will include, according to a press release, more than 1,600 strike and anti-aircraft missiles, including a new batch of Storm Shadow cruise missiles, whose flight range is about 250 kilometers. London also plans to transfer to Kyiv 60 boats and boats, 160 Husky armored cars, 162 other armored vehicles, 78 all-terrain vehicles and about four million rounds of ammunition.

The United States is also preparing a new package of military assistance to Ukraine. It is expected to be much larger than the $300 million package awarded in March. Writes about this Politico with reference to American officials. According to the publication’s interlocutors, it will include armored vehicles and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, as well as artillery and air defense shells.

As American media reported earlier, the Pentagon had prepared a large batch of military aid to Ukraine in advance, so after appropriations for it are approved, it will take less than a week to deliver weapons and ammunition to the Ukrainian army.

On April 20, the US House of Representatives approved an aid package to Ukraine in the amount of $60 billion 800 million.

Officials expect deliveries under the package to begin immediately after US President Joe Biden signs the $61 billion Ukraine aid bill.