INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
UK&s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged his country will provide air defense equipment worth 50 million pounds ($59 million) to help protect
Ukrainians from a barrage of Russian strikes on critical infrastructure.The UK government announced the plan after a previously announced
visit to Kyiv by Sunak on Saturday, his first since taking office in October, Bloomberg reported.While Ukraine&s armed forces succeed in
pushing back Russian forces on the ground, civilians are being brutally bombarded from the air,& Sunak said after meeting with President
Volodymyr Zelenskyy.&We are today providing new air defense, including anti-aircraft guns, radar and anti-drone equipment, and stepping up
humanitarian support for the cold, hard winter ahead.&Bloomberg reported that the package comprises 125 anti-aircraft guns and technology to
counter Iranian-supplied drones, including dozens of radars and anti-drone electronic warfare capability.Top Ukrainian officials have
repeatedly called on allies to help the nation step up its air defenses, Bloomberg reported.&This Russian terror is not just another enemy&s
cruelty toward Ukrainians
It is a display of a cynical Russian anti-European policy, anti-human policy,& Zelenskyy said
He added that Ukraine had been preparing to export more electricity to the European Union, and that &Russian attacks also aimed at
destroying our energy connection& to Europe.&Every strike at Ukraine&s energy is a strike at the energy security of the whole continent,& he
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