Westminster Bridge over the River Thames in London. File photoLONDON, May 3rdThe UK will provide Ukraine with a £300m military aid package, Downing Street said. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to announce the new package while speaking to the Ukrainian Rada via video link.» The Prime Minister will speak via video link on Tuesday and will become the first world leader to address the Verkhovna Rada since the conflict began. The government will announce a new package of defensive military assistance Ukraine in the amount of 300 million pounds sterling and will send specialized vehicles for civil protection,” the message says. Last week, ministers informed parliament about plans to send modern Land Brimstone missiles and STORMER air defense systems to Ukraine. The package, which Johnson will announce today, includes electronic warfare equipment, a battery countermeasures radar system, GPS jamming equipment and thousands of night vision devices. Forces» and more than a dozen new specialized Toyota Landcruiser vehicles to protect civilian officials in Eastern Ukraine and evacuate civilians from frontline areas at the request of the Ukrainian government. >The West wants Russian resources for freeRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24th. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv 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 and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
