UK to provide major funding package for Ukraine

The United Kingdom is expected to announce a new major funding package for Ukraine, which will include additional ammunition and combat vehicles, as well as £50 million ($64.7 million USD) in support for equipment repair and a new military rehabilitation center.

A relevant statement was made by the UK Government, Ukrinform reports referring to CNN.

London also said G7 partners are expected to agree to an international framework for Ukraine’s long-term security arrangements on Wednesday, which "will set out how allies will support Ukraine over the coming years to end the war and deter and respond to any future attack."

"It is the first time that this many countries have agreed a comprehensive long-term security arrangement of this kind with another country," according to Downing Street.

Following a joint declaration on Wednesday, G7 partners "will provide more defense equipment, increase and accelerate intelligence sharing, bolster support for cyber and hybrid threat defenses, expand training programs and military exercises, and develop Ukraine’s industrial base," the statement said.

The British government's latest funding package will include additional rounds of Challenger 2 ammunition; more than 70 combat and logistics vehicles, including combat vehicle reconnaissance tracked vehicles. The UK will also provide funding for a rehabilitation center to aid Ukrainian soldiers who have been injured in combat.

“As Ukraine makes strategic progress in their counteroffensive, and the degradation of Russian forces begins to infect Putin’s front line, we are stepping up our formal arrangements to protect Ukraine for the long term," British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said in the statement. 

“Supporting [Ukraine's] progress on the pathway to NATO membership, coupled with formal, multilateral, and bilateral agreements and the overwhelming support of NATO members will send a strong signal to President Putin and return peace to Europe," Sunak said.