UK’s PM Sunak pledges tanks, artillery for Ukraine as Russian missiles hit Kyiv infrastructure
- British media has reported that four British Army Challenger 2 main battle tanks will be sent to eastern Europe immediately
- It was not immediately clear whether several facilities in Kyiv were targeted or just the one that was reported hit in Saturday’s missile attack
Sunak’s Downing Street office said in a statement that he made the pledge after speaking to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday.
It did not say when the tanks were to be delivered or how many. British media has reported that four British Army Challenger 2 main battle tanks will be sent to eastern Europe immediately, with eight more to follow soon after. They did not cite sources.
Russia fired a second wave of missiles at Ukraine on Saturday, forcing people to take cover as sirens blared across the country just hours after morning air strikes that hit critical infrastructure in Kyiv and the eastern city of Kharkiv.
Authorities in Mykolayiv, the western city of Lviv and the Black Sea port of Odesa said air defences were trying to shoot down incoming missiles. Explosions were heard in the central Vynnytsa region, Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne reported.
At least 10 people, including two children, were injured by a Russian strike on an apartment block in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Saturday, the regional governor said.
An official from the Ukrainian President’s Office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said 15 people had already been rescued from the rubble. He also posted a picture which showed a nine-storey block of flats, part of which had collapsed entirely.
