UK, Norway to Provide Additional $580 Million in Military Support to Ukraine
Ukraine is to receive new military support worth £450 million ($580 million) through the British-led International Fund for Ukraine.
The Gaze reports on this with reference to Reuters.
Britain's Ministry of Defence has announced that the country will provide £350 million of its £4.5 billion military support package to Ukraine this year, with Norway providing the remaining funding, the UK Ministry of Defence said.
The new military support package will be provided by British and Ukrainian suppliers.
The funding will be announced at a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group in Brussels, which will be chaired by British Defence Secretary John Healey alongside his German counterpart Boris Pistorius. The group includes representatives of NATO and other countries that support Ukraine.
The funding will support the repair and maintenance of vehicles and equipment, as well as radar systems, anti-tank mines and hundreds of thousands of drones.
‘The work of the Contact Group on Ukraine's Defence is vital to putting Ukraine in the strongest possible position to put pressure on Putin,’ Gilli will say at the meeting.
‘We cannot jeopardise peace by forgetting about war, which is why today's large package will strengthen support for Ukraine on the frontline,’ the Defence Ministry quoted him as saying.
On Thursday, Gili chaired a meeting of defence ministers of the so-called ‘coalition of the willing’, a peacekeeping initiative led by the UK and France.
As The Gaze has previously reported, the Coalition of the Willing has four main goals for Ukraine's future security forces: safe skies, safe seas, peace on the ground, and a strong Ukrainian army.
The ‘coalition of the willing’, led by France and Britain, is working on a plan to send a mission to Ukraine to guarantee a future ‘ceasefire’.
On 4 April, the French and British Chiefs of Defence visited Kyiv to meet with Ukraine's top leadership. The purpose of the visit was to discuss the needs and challenges of the Ukrainian army with a view to providing long-term support.