UK prime minister says Kyiv needs more ammunition, air defence, heavy armoury and longer range weapons
European countries should stop hoarding weapon stockpiles and give them to Ukraine to allow Kyiv to make a decisive assault,needed more ammunition, air defence, heavy armoury and longer range weapons, amid frustration in London and Kyiv that some European powers are refusing to hand over arms on the basis they cannot afford to reduce their own defences.
Sunak and Von der Leyen held a separate meeting at the conference on Saturday afternoon in which they discussed Ukraine and Sunak’s plan for a deal on the Northern Ireland protocol. “The president and the prime minister expressed their confidence that the spirit of cooperation with which we have responded to Putin’s brutal war in Ukraine should also be reflected across the full range of issues the EU and the UK face together.”
The British defence secretary, Ben Wallace, ruled out a rapid British delivery of modern fighter jets, citing the lengthy training time for pilots. “There will be no quick deliveries of fighter jets, certainly not in this phase of the war, and almost certainly not in six months,” he said.the Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, and the Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki, on the fringes of the Munich conference.
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