Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hold a press conference at the Mariyinsky Palace to announce the UK’s “single biggest package of defence aid to Ukraine”.
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00:00 The United Kingdom is announcing today our single biggest package of defence aid to Ukraine
00:06 since the war began, worth two and a half billion pounds.
00:10 This will include more air defence equipment, more anti-tank weapons, more long-range missiles,
00:17 thousands of rounds, more ammunition and artillery shells, training for thousands more Ukrainian
00:23 servicemen and women, and 200 million pounds to build thousands more drones, the single largest
00:31 package of drones given to Ukraine by any nation. In total, since the war began, the UK will have
00:38 provided almost 12 billion pounds of aid to Ukraine. And I'm proud that today President
00:45 Zelensky and I have signed a new security agreement that will form the core of a partnership between
00:53 our two countries that will last a hundred years or more. This is the first in a series of new
01:02 bilateral security assurances promised to Ukraine by 30 countries at last year's Vilnius Summit.
01:08 And it says that if Russia ever invades Ukraine again, the UK will come to your aid with swift
01:17 and sustained security assurance. We will provide the modern equipment across land, sea and sky,
01:23 sanction Russia's economy and work closely with allies to do so.
01:28 You will not have to ask. You will not have to argue for what you need. The UK will be there
01:36 from the first moment to the last. And of course we continue to support Ukraine's journey to NATO
01:42 membership. You belong in NATO and NATO will be stronger with you.