Britain Allocates £100 Million to Strengthen Ukraine’s Air Defense

The British government has announced the urgent allocation of an additional £100 million to strengthen Ukraine’s air defense.

This is reported on the British government’s website.

This latest package means that the UK has allocated £600 million over the past two months to support Ukraine’s air defense.

The UK’s new aid package follows today’s meeting of Joint Expeditionary Force leaders in Helsinki to discuss how partners can move forward more quickly in supporting Ukraine.

The government clarified that this funding builds on the £500 million air defense aid package announced in February at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

This assistance included £150 million for NATO’s PURL initiative, which enabled the rapid delivery of air defense interceptors, as well as over 1,000 Light Multi-Purpose Missiles (LMMs) manufactured in Belfast.

Last year, Ukraine and the UK also announced the launch of a joint project under which our country will receive 5,000 LMM anti-aircraft missiles and the technology to produce them. Ukraine is already using British RapidRanger air defense systems to shoot down Russian air targets.