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UK pledges £2.26bn to Ukraine as Zelensky says it will be used for weapons - latest (www.bbc.co.uk)

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The UK and Ukraine have agreed a £2.26bn loan to support Ukraine's defence capabilities, Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko says.

Volodymyr Zelensky and Sir Keir Starmer, together with Chancellor Rachel Reeves, held a video call with Marchenko this evening.

Marchenko wrote on social media, external that the funds are "ensured by frozen Russian assets".

He added that he was "grateful" to the UK for "holding the aggressor accountable for the war".
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Posting on X in the last few moments, Zelensky wrote: "This loan will enhance Ukraine’s defence capabilities and will be repaid using revenues from frozen Russian assets.

"The funds will be directed toward weapons production in Ukraine. This is true justice - the one who started the war must be the one to pay.

"I thank the people and government of the United Kingdom for their tremendous support from the very beginning of this war.

"We are happy to have such strategic partners and to share the same vision of what a secure future should look like for all."

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[–] LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 day ago

I'm loathe to praise Starmer for anything but he does deserve credit for this. Hopefully he doesn't then turn around and suck up even more to Trump

[–] ReasonableHat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Needed after the US so publicly ended its "leader of the free world" circle-jerk. Ukraine needs to resist long enough, and Europe needs to rearm fast enough, to mitigate disaster. This and other financial support will buy some of that time.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 1 day ago

US is is getting gutted from within. We should be helping obviously but at this point if EU can't do this for next 4 years, Ukraine is fucked.

They will fight until they can't and then they will need to resettled within EU anyway...

2020s a decade when the world figured how people with out a homeland get generated IRL

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Some of the US contribution to the Ukraine war effort was in the form of older equipment or credits to purchase arms from US weapons sellers (i.e. the funds just recycled back to the US).

Wondering why these UK funds are in the form of 'loans?'

It sounds like these may be to help Ukraine domestically manufacture their own arms.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 3 points 1 day ago

Good stuff. We collectively weren't doing enough before, and now a big chunk of the "we" has been lost.