The U.K. will increase its military aid to Ukraine in 2023, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced in his first foreign policy speech to the Lord Mayor’s Banquet on Nov. 28, his office reported.
“Be in no doubt. We will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes. We will maintain or increase our military aid next year. And we will provide new support for air defense, to protect the Ukrainian people and the critical infrastructure that they rely on. By protecting Ukraine, we protect ourselves,” Sunak said.
On Nov. 19, during his visit to Kiev, Sunak said that the volume of the U.K.’s military aid to Ukraine had surpassed £3 billion ($3.6 billion). The U.K. has already armed Ukraine with close to 7,000 NLAW anti-tank complexes, over 100 armored vehicles, Stormer self-propelled air defense guns with Starstreak missiles, several dozen M109 howitzers and L119 towed guns, M270 MLRS, over 16,000 artillery shells, loitering munitions and 4.5 tons of plastic explosives.
