Britain to provide Ukraine with twice as many tanks as planned - Prystaiko
The UK also offered to increase the number of military trainings for Ukrainian soldiers by 2.5 times
The United Kingdom initially planned to provide the Ukrainian Armed Forces with 14 Challenger tanks, but after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to London in early February, it decided to increase this number to 28.
Source. This was stated by Ukraine's Ambassador to the UK Vadym Prystaiko in an interview with the Ukrainian service of Radio Liberty.
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"As for the tanks [Challenger 2], we were promised 14 tanks, and as a result of President Zelensky's visit, an agreement was reached that this number would double," Prystaiko said.
"We will now receive 33 155-millimeter AS-90 systems from Britain," he added.
He also noted that this year Britain has proposed to increase the number of military trainings for Ukrainian soldiers by 2.5 times.
Prystaiko emphasized that the United Kingdom has become the second largest military aid provider to Ukraine after the United States.
He urged Western countries not to be too afraid of irritating the Kremlin by supplying weapons.
Britain, he said, "has long since realized that all the red lines that the Kremlin has drawn are red lines that only suit it."
Background. As a reminder, the street near the Russian embassy in London was renamed as Kyivska Street.
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