Live Ukraine: Cameron promises Ukraine 3.5 billion euros in British military aid annually ‘as long as it is needed’

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Cameron promises Ukraine £3 billion in military aid a year ‘for as long as it takes’

British Foreign Secretary David Cameron on Thursday promised Ukraine three billion pounds (3.5 billion euros) in annual military aid for “as long as it is needed.” He added that the British government has no objection to the weapons also being used in Russia.

“Some of the equipment is arriving in Ukraine today while I am here,” Cameron said in an interview with the Reuters news agency during a visit to Kyiv. Cameron also said that the aid package is Britain’s largest to date.

According to Cameron, Ukraine may use the weapons supplied by London to attack targets in Russia. ‘Ukraine has that right. Just as Russia strikes within Ukraine, you can well understand why Ukraine feels the need to ensure it defends itself,” said the British Foreign Secretary, who served as Prime Minister of Britain from 2010 to 2016. (Reuters)

8:40 PM, Yesterday

Welcome to the live blog of Friday, May 3

This as the most important news about the war in Ukraine on Thursday, May 2:

• The Russian Ministry of Defense claims to have captured another village in Ukraine. This concerns the village of Berdychi, in Donetsk province.

• Russia has executed at least 15 Ukrainian soldiers who attempted to surrender since early December 2023. Human Rights Watch reports this.

• Nearly half of the Russians who left the country after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have now returned to Russia, Bloomberg reports.

Read Thursday’s full live blog here.