Ukraine-Russia war latest: UK gives 30,000 drones to Kyiv as Trump says Putin wants to meet him
The UK and other Nato member states are sending 30,000 FPV drones to Ukraine in a boost to European security and to help the war-hit country to fight Russian aggression.
Defence secretary John Healey announced that the UK is funding the drones along with Denmark, Netherlands, Latvia and Sweden.
“These state-of-the-art, first-person view (FPV) drones will help Ukraine fight against Russian aggression, allowing Ukraine’s Armed Forces to manoeuvre past Russian air defences to target enemy positions and armoured vehicles,” it said in a statement.
This comes as Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin wants to meet him and that a meeting was being set up as the war in Ukraine crosses 1050-day mark. The Republican president-elect offered no timeline for talks between the two leaders.
“He wants to meet, and we are setting it up,” Mr Trump said in remarks before a meeting with Republican governors at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.
“President Putin wants to meet. He has said that even publicly and we have to get that war over with. That’s a bloody mess,” Trump said about the Russia-Ukraine war.
