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| Ukrainian President, Zelensky (Left) and Britain Premier, Rishi Sunak |
| (Right) Image Credit: Google/Le Monde |
The United Kingdom
pledged Ukraine to Provide more weapons for war. The move termed by Kremlin “Extremely
Negative”.
Volodymyr
Zelensky, the Ukraine’s Premier visited London and met his counterpart, Rishi
Sunak. He was greeted by the Premier with shake hand a hug that showed a warm welcome.
The Points to
Focus:
Zelensky is
visiting European Countries to acquire more aid and support. He is visiting London
for the second time after the Ukrainian invasion of Russia.
United Kingdom,
a staunch ally of Kiev, promised to provide hundreds more missiles and drone
attackers in order to change the course of war.
Zelensky is
vising Europe from the past few days with the aim to acquire more aid, especially
military support to prepare Ukraine to retake its territory seized by Russia.
UK has proven
that it is one of the major allies of Ukraine. it also had sent short-ranged
missiles, challenger tanks and trained 15,000 of Ukrainian soldiers on its
soil.
Last week, UK
openly announced that it had sent Ukraine its storm shadow missiles with a range
of about 250 kilometres.
The Kremlin
Response:
The Kremlin’s spokesperson,
Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin took Britain’s pledge to provide Ukraine with
more weapons “Extremely Negatively”, but he added that such efforts wouldn’t
not drastically change the course of war in Ukraine.
Peskov was quoted
as saying that “Britain desire to be at the forefront among the countries
who prompted and provided weapons to Ukraine” but “We repeat once again,
these effort yield not any fundamental change instead of more destruction and
chaos.”
UK’s Response:
Rishi Sunak, in
response, vowed for a long-term support to Ukraine by confirming to provide air
defense missiles, long range attack drones (with a range of 200 km or 120 miles).
He added that
this is a crucial moment for Ukraine as it did not chose or provoke the
aggression.
He also urged
the support of international community to defend the country against
indiscriminate attacks became reality in the daily routine over a year.
Sunak will also
push the allies for more support to Ukraine in upcoming meeting of G-7 in Japan
later this week.
(Courtesy: Le
Monde)
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