Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has reaffirmed the UK’s help for Ukraine with a brand new 12 months’s telephone name to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The 2 leaders spoke after a Ukrainian rocket assault killed dozens of Russian troopers in a city within the Donetsk area.
Russia has terrorised Ukrainians with a recent spherical of drone strikes because it seeks to destroy the nation’s infrastructure and brutalise the inhabitants into submission.
Throughout their telephone name, Mr Sunak advised the Ukrainian president his nation might ‘rely on the UK to proceed to help it for the long run’, and pledged extra army help in 2023.
A Downing Road spokesperson stated: ‘The leaders mentioned the abhorrent drone assaults on Ukraine in latest day, and the Prime Minister stated the ideas of the UK had been with the Ukrainian folks as they continued to stay underneath such bombardment.
‘The Prime Minister stated Ukraine might rely on the UK to proceed to help it for the long run, as demonstrated by the latest supply of greater than 1,000 anti-air missiles.
‘Work was additionally underneath manner to supply additional gear within the coming weeks and months to safe Ukraine’s victory on the battlefield,’ the PM added.
Mr Sunak harassed the UK and Joint Expeditionary Power companions had been ‘working carefully to supply the important gear requested’ by Kyiv.
The 2 leaders agreed to remain in contact and are resulting from converse once more in coming weeks.
In a tweet, Mr Zelensky spoke of hopes to ‘carry victory nearer’ in 2023, with the help of the UK.
He tweeted that along with Mr Sunak, ‘we mentioned additional defence cooperation’.
‘We agreed to accentuate our efforts to carry victory nearer this 12 months already. We have already got concrete choices for this.’
The Ukrainian chief seems to be beginning the brand new 12 months with a spherical of telephone calls to European leaders and allies, together with European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen.
He additionally spoke with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Tuesday.
In accordance with Mr Zelensky, Russia is getting ready to step up its assaults on Ukraine utilizing exploding drones, as Moscow appears to be like for methods to hit again after a Ukrainian rocket assault killed dozens of enemy troopers in a city within the Donetsk area.
‘We now have info that Russia is planning a chronic assault by Shaheds (Iranian-made exploding drones),’ Mr Zelensky stated in his nightly video tackle on Monday.
He stated the objective is to interrupt Ukraine’s resistance by ‘exhausting our folks, (our) air defence, our power’, greater than 10 months after the invasion.
On New 12 months’s Day Russia suffered one of many greatest losses within the conflict so far when scores of Russian troops had been killed in a missile assault on an ammunition dump within the city of Makiivka in Donetsk.
In Sunday’s assault, Ukrainian forces fired six rockets from a HIMARS launch system and two had been shot down, a Russian Defence Ministry assertion stated.
Nonetheless, the Strategic Communications Directorate of Ukraine’s Armed Forces claimed that round 400 mobilised Russian troopers had been killed in a vocational faculty constructing in Makiivka and about 300 extra had been wounded.
The Kremlin downplayed the size of the assault and stated 63 troopers had been killed within the blast, though neither facet’s claims have been independently verified.
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