Aircraft with military aid to UkraineLONDON, Mar 16 UK to donate man-portable air defense systems to Ukraine Starstreak, the British Ministry of Defense said in a statement following the NATO Ministerial Council. will complement other military assistance provided by the British Armed Forces, which includes more than 4,000 anti-tank missiles,” the message says. Ukraine a couple of hours and fled the UK has recently stepped up its military commitments in Eastern Europe, including doubling the number of troops in E Estonia, sending HMS Trent and HMS Diamond to the Eastern Mediterranean and providing air policing over Romania and Poland. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 24 February. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But there is no question of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized.
