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Rishi Sunak will confirm that UK military funding to Ukraine will increase to £2.5bn in the next financial year during a visit to Kyiv on Friday, Downing Street has said.
The UK prime minister and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will sign a new bilateral agreement on security co-operation, the first step in developing “an unshakeable hundred-year partnership” between the two nations.
Britain’s commitment is an increase of £200mn on the previouse two years. At least £200mn of the package will be spent on thousands of surveillance, long-range strike and sea drones.
Sunak said: “I am here today with one message: the UK will also not falter. We will stand with Ukraine, in their darkest hours and in the better times to come.”
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