Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak addresses a press conference in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday April 23, 2024. The U.K. prime minister said Tuesday the country is putting its defence industry on a “war footing” by increasing defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP by the end of the decade, and pledged to send arms worth 500 million pounds to Ukraine.
“We will put the U.K.’s own defence industry on a war footing,” Sunak told British troops serving on NATO's eastern front near Ukraine. “One of the central lessons of the war in Ukraine is that we need deeper stockpiles of munitions, and for industry to be able to replenish them more quickly.” Sunak also spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to confirm the new assistance to Ukraine and "assure him of the U.K.’s steadfast support for Ukraine’s defence against Russia’s brutal and expansionist ambitions,” Sunak's office said.
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