London, Thanasis Gavos
The United Kingdom will send to Ukraine “one small number of armored vehicles “Anti-aircraft missile launchers have been deployed,” British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told the House of Commons.
He also said that approximately 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed on the Ukrainian front since the beginning of the invasion and that more than 2,000 Russian armored vehicles have been destroyed or fallen into the hands of Ukrainian forces. In addition, the Russians have lost more than 60 helicopters and aircraft, the minister added.
Mr Wallace also pledged to send an unspecified number Challenger 2 tanks in Poland to replace the Polish T-72 tanks that will be given to the Ukrainians.
Revealed that the United Kingdom has sent 5,361 anti-tank weapons to Ukraine new generation (NLAW), 200 Javelin anti-tank missiles and will provide an additional 250 Starstreak high-speed anti-aircraft missiles.
“With this invasion of Ukraine, the whole of Europe can now see its true face Vladimir Putin and its inner circle. His intention is only to destroy, to crush, to annihilate the free people of Ukraine“, Said the British Minister of Defense to the deputies.
He added that Russia has so far failed in “almost all of its goals” and noted that in order to achieve “real peace” President Putin would have to withdraw his forces from all of Ukraine, including Crimea.
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