jets might arrive in ukraine. do you think that the us is moving fast enough for these militaryjets, which of course the ukrainian president has been requesting for many months now? i think we should have done it sooner, and i think we ought to do it right away. i think we should do the training. and i do want to give credit, great credit to prime minister sunak of the uk. he was very up front, early, in saying that he would do the things that could really help ukraine. and, of course, borisjohnson was the first european prime minister to visit ukraine even when it was considered very dangerous. so, i think uk has played a great part here. i support that, and i think the united states has also given the lion s share of the equipment and the operative things, the missiles and the operative, bradley fighting vehicles,
Since Russia invaded Ukraine 15 months ago, the West has delivered ever more powerful weapons to Kyiv to help it defend its territory and recapture lost ground. A look back at how the type of weaponry supplied evolved over the course of the war
The Russian defence ministry denied on Thursday (11 May) reports that Ukrainian troops had broken through at various points along the front line and claimed the situation was under full control. Moscow responded after Russian military blogs, posting on Telegram, claimed that Ukrainian forces were making advances to the north and south east of Bakhmut […]
and determined manner. today i can confirm that the uk is donating storm shadow missiles to ukraine. storm shadow is a long range, conventional only precision strike capability. it compliments the long range systems already gifted including himars and harpoon missiles, as well as ukraine s own neptune cruise missile and longer range missions elsewhere gifted. the donation of these weapons systems gives ukraine the best chance to defend themselves against russia s continued brutality, especially the deliberate targeting of ukrainian civilian infrastructure, which is against international law. ukraine has a right to be able to defend itself against this. the use of storm shadow will allow ukraine to push back russian forces based within ukrainian sovereign territory. before that uk annoucement ukraine s, president zelensky warned that his country needs more arms to be delivered, ahead of a spring counter offensive against russian forces. where that push will happen remains a tightly gu
pakistan the release of former prime minister, imran khan saying his arrest on tuesday was illegal. and eurovision fever heats up. 16 countries take to the stage in liverpool later for the second semi final. welcome to bbc news we start with the war in ukraine and a significant development with confirmation from the british defence secretary, that storm shadow cruise missiles, pictured here, are being sent to ukraine. the missiles have a long range capability and are typically launched from the air. the move prompted an instant response from the kremlin. saying the decision would require an adequate response from our military . we ll get military analysis in a moment first though here s ben wallace with that announcement in the house of commons. here s the uk s defence secretary in december i informed the house that i was developing options to respond to a russia s continued aggression in a calibrated