British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has travelled to Kyiv and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to offer continued aid and military training, adding that evidence points to Russia 'taking heavy casualties' in the invasion.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has travelled to Kyiv and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to offer continued aid and military training, adding that evidence points to Russia "taking heavy casualties" in the invasion.
Mr Johnson's trip to Kyiv followed one a day earlier by the leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Romania, who vowed to support Ukraine's fight without asking it to make any territorial concessions to Russia. "We are with you, to give you the strategic endurance that you will need," Mr Johnson said on his second visit to the country since the start of the war.
Although he did not detail the aid, he said Britain would lead a program that could train up to 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers every 120 days in an unspecified location outside the country.Ukraine has been taking heavy casualties in the battle for the country's eastern industrial heartland. "I completely understand why you and your people can make no compromise with Putin because if Ukraine is suffering, if the Ukrainian troops are suffering, then I have to tell you that all the evidence is that Putin's troops are under acute pressure themselves and they are taking heavy casualties," Mr Johnson said.
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