The United Kingdom says it will hand over a rapidly and secretly developed new air defence system to Ukraine which it says repurposes stocks of surplus air-to-air missiles to a ground-launch role to help defend Ukraine’s cities.
Ukraine is to receive a new shipping container-sized “mobile air defence capability” this year, The United Kingdom announced as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer made the first visit of his now six month-old leadership to Kyiv on Thursday.
The main headline-catching exercise of the trip was Starmer making a surprise announcement of a 100-year treaty with Ukraine, an agreement being signed with President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday. The content of the treaty is to be debated in Britain’s Parliament in the coming weeks, Downing Street said.
But also announced was a new tranche of cash and support for Ukraine, the British government announcing:…
