Britain pledges to send more lethal weapons to Ukraine
April 1, 2022, 7:11 am

Britain pledges to send more lethal weapons to Ukraine

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The We For News reported, British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said on Thursday that the UK and “a number of [other] countries” are sending more arms to Ukraine in a bid to hold back the Russian military. Britain has already sent thousands of anti-tank missiles into the war-torn country.

Wallace told reporters after a donor conference in London aimed at increasing arms shipments to Kiev: “There’ll be more lethal aid going into Ukraine as a result of today. A number of countries have come forward either with new ideas or indeed more pledges of money.”

Wallace said that Britain’s latest cache of weapons would include longer-range artillery, ammunition, and anti-air missiles.

The UK has already donated more than 4,000 NLAW anti-tank weapons to Ukraine, at a cost of £20,000 ($26,300) per disposable unit.

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told his cabinet that he wants to send Kiev “more lethal” weapons, reportedly mentioning artillery, anti-ship missiles, and more advanced air defense systems. It is unclear whether the air defense systems mentioned by Johnson and Wallace would be shoulder-fired missiles, like the ‘Stinger’ units already sent by some NATO countries, or larger vehicle-mounted missile batteries.

Britain's Defence Secretary Ben Wallace listens to Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at the start of their meeting at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo, Japan on July 20, 2021. (Photo: REUTERS)

Sending the latter into Ukraine would pose problems of its own, as Russia has declared convoys of military equipment to be “legitimate targets” once on Ukrainian territory.

The effectiveness of the weapons already sent by the UK is hotly debated. The Ukrainian government claims to have destroyed far more Russian equipment than Moscow records lost, while the Russian government says that its military operation is proceeding according to plan. Russian troops have successfully tied down Ukrainian forces near Kiev, and are now being withdrawn to concentrate on “the final stage of the operation” – defeating the Ukrainian military in the Donbass region, Moscow insisted on Wednesday.

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For the Ukrainian military, foreign arms shipments are essential, as the country’s defense industry has been “practically destroyed,” an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Alexey Arestovich, said this week

Moscow attacked its neighbor in late February, following Ukraine’s failure to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements signed in 2014, and Russia’s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics in Donetsk and Lugansk. The German and French brokered protocols had been designed to regularize the status of those regions within the Ukrainian state.

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Russia has now demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country that will never join the US-led NATO military bloc. Kiev insists the Russian offensive was completely unprovoked and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.

Source: wefornews

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