British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called on his G7 allies, who are due to meet by videoconference on Friday on the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion, to speed up artillery deliveries to the Ukrainian army and provide it with supplies. longer range weapons. “For Ukraine to win this war – and for that day to come sooner – it must gain a decisive advantage on the battlefield,” the conservative leader said at the meeting, according to his services. “Instead of adopting an incremental approach, our priority must be to move faster on artillery, armor and air defense,” he added.
Rishi Sunak, who will observe a minute’s silence in Downing Street with Ukrainian military personnel, wants to plead with G7 leaders for deliveries of “longer-range weapons”.
According to Downing Street, after announcing that it is training Ukrainian fighter pilots, it wants to “reiterate its offer of British support to countries capable of supplying planes to Ukraine to help it immediately in this conflict”. The first country to promise heavy tanks to kyiv, the United Kingdom opened the possibility of delivering planes to NATO standards but specified that pilot training would take up to three years. The Ukrainian army has Soviet-designed aircraft.
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