Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak signed a security agreement between the two countries in Kyiv on Friday, Reuters and Agerpres report.
This is an “unprecedented security agreement” that will be in effect until Ukraine joins NATO, the president of Ukraine noted.
He also stated that he was “satisfied with the conclusion of the first agreement with Great Britain”, which is “the basis for working with other partners”.
Zelenskyi also said that Kyiv and London will be able to later conclude additional agreements on separate sectors, if necessary.
During his visit to Kyiv, the British Prime Minister announced an increase in military aid to Ukraine and an unprecedented delivery of a thousand drones.
Thus, British military aid for 2024/2025 will be £2.5 billion, an increase of £200 million compared to the previous two years, bringing the total amount of British aid to Ukraine to nearly £12 billion (€14 billion).
Medvedev’s address to “our eternal enemies, the insolent English”
In response to the British Prime Minister’s statement in Kyiv, the Vice-President of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, former President Dmitry Medvedev, an important ally of President Vladimir Putin, warned on Friday that Moscow would accept any move by Great Britain to deploy a military contingent in Ukraine as a declaration of war against Russia, Reuters also recorded.
“I hope our eternal enemies – the insolent British – understand that placing an official military contingent in Ukraine would be a declaration of war on our country,” Medvedev wrote in Telegram.
He also asked how the Western public would feel if Sunak’s delegation came under cluster munition fire in the center of Kyiv, noting that this had recently happened to Russian civilians in the city of Belgorod.
He was referring to a Dec. 30 incident in a town near the border with Ukraine in which Russia says at least 20 people, including two children, were killed and 111 others injured during a Ukrainian raid that was allegedly carried out using cluster bombs.
The RBC-Ukraine agency reported with reference to anonymous sources that Ukrainian forces struck military facilities in Belgorod in response to Russia’s massive shelling of some Ukrainian cities the day before, Reuters reminds.
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