The deal follows Kiev’s largest UAV attack on Moscow in years and is reportedly funded by frozen Russian assets.
The UK will provide Ukraine with 150,000 UAVs by the end of the year, London announced on Thursday following one of Kiev’s largest drone attacks on Moscow since the start of the conflict.
The package, worth £752 million ($996 million), was announced by British Defense Secretary Dan Jarvis at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group in Brussels. According to the British government, which has been among Kiev’s most active military supporters, the package will be funded through London’s £2.26 billion loan to Kiev, backed by proceeds from frozen Russian sovereign assets.
British officials presented the package, which includes drones, missiles and radars, as necessary military support for Kiev. Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged that London would continue backing Ukraine and putting pressure on Moscow. Russia has long argued that continued Western arms deliveries only prolong the conflict and undermine peace efforts.
The announcement came after Moscow and the surrounding region were hit by one of the largest Ukrainian drone raids in recent years. Russian air defenses intercepted 194 drones approaching the capital overnight, according to officials, but the attack still caused damage.
Local authorities reported that one drone struck the Moscow Oil Refinery in the Kapotnya district, triggering a fire, while debris damaged residential buildings, vehicles, and commercial sites, including several shopping centers.
Residents in several districts also reported black rain and soot falling from the sky after the refinery blaze, with the local authorities advising people to keep windows closed and limit time outdoors.
At least 17 civilians, including two children, were reported injured in the Moscow Region. The raid also disrupted air traffic, with temporary restrictions imposed at Moscow’s airports and numerous flights delayed or canceled.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov condemned the attacks and said Moscow would respond by changing its strategy and begin regularly carrying out large-scale strikes against targets that “directly affect the combat capability” of the Ukrainian military.
“I have long been convinced that words are not enough,” Lavrov told reporters.
Moscow has accused Ukraine of using Western-supplied weapons, funding, and intelligence to carry out terrorist attacks on Russian territory and civilian infrastructure.
Russian officials have argued that continued arms deliveries from the UK, EU, and NATO members make Western governments direct participants in the conflict and reduce the chances of a peace deal.
I took a look at GB News and the likes of the Sun on YouTube, both pedaling Russia phobia and huge support for self confessed Nazi Ukrainians. The most troubling part I found was that the British public are so easily influenced by the UK’s Nudge Unit, all waving their British flags and supporting Zelensky or were these people actually the Nudge Unit themselves?
Why don’t the Russians bomb London are they to windy or is it just a big game the big boys are playing
Send the drones right back to where they came from.
Send them to British Defense Secretary Dan Jarvis 😎
And keep a couple destined for Starmer.
This is not the UK’s war. Stay out of it Starmer.
I’m beginning to think this IS the UK’s war. Zelenskyy is the handicap kid being encouraged by the bully to do wrong for entertainment.
NAILED IT !
Refuse Trump, help Zelensky, and shit on his own people. Starmergeddon.
Just begging to be at war with Russia. The globalists think this will save them but in truth, it will be their final end.
It would probably trigger WWIII. The Brits don’t have the ability to wage a conventional war like Russia, so they would quickly resort to nukes. That said, I do think the Russians have more than enough justification to destroy any and all British presence in Ukraine, the very second it crosses the border in any form. I’d also say its high time to remove the Kiev regime.
Globy, u make again utmost sense.
As much as I am for restraint to simply assassinate any head of state even in times of war, dumbo trumbo has crossed thst line. Kudos to Putin, IMO the greatet statesman alive, for restraint.
But a cancerous little growth like death salesman zelenski, should be excised.
In the grand realm of creation, everything has an end to it.
Only a sausage has two.
Sorry for this pun.
Dear Mr Putin. Please call Mr Xi and ask him for 1.5 million drones to launch against the aggressor.
The deal was Ukraine and were never NATO were never to join. Honour your agreement or face war.
If these politicians want to send our sons to war, the law should be the sons of politicians must be on the front lines and in the first wave.
In an interview with a Russian drone manufacturer they found the internal electronics they use, imported from China, were also being used by the Ukrainians. The man said Ukraine had a slight advantage, with more technologically capable drones but that they were making advances. Suffice to say, “there are no friends in business”.
An EMP would drop these from where they are…OR
Putin could launch an Oreshnik w/ a nuke to melt the damned things before they arrive near their targets..!
Either way, IF the British give these drones to the insane little Zionist ‘Greater Israel’ J3wish Dicktator, then it’s game over for London…and the rest of Great Britain!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUmUz8ol9Ow
https://x.com/VLTRASociety/status/2068367766348865839
Send 150,000 drones to kill Christians while refusing to back the US against the Islamic regime. Starmer needs immigrants to fill his voter base – although that’s obviously failed. Britain get ready for islamic ‘soldiers of Allah’ – they’re gearing up for war.