BRITAIN is sending Ukraine multiple launch rocket systems that can strike 49 miles away.
We will also train them to use the M2701B1 launchers.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said they will “better enable our Ukrainian friends to protect themselves”.
The US has agreed to supply a small number of its medium-range “Himars” system.
Yesterday, a woman died when shelling from Vladimir Putin’s forces set fire to a school in Kharkiv.
Russia also shelled key targets in the Dnipropetrovsk region overnight.
And in the east and south east, Russian troops continued storming Severodonetsk and Komyshuvakha.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia is now controlling about 20 per cent of his country’s territory.
Nearly 12 million Ukrainians have been forced to flee their homes since the invasion started on February 24, with five million heading abroad.
Zelensky claimed that Russian military losses now stood at more than 30,000 — more than in the 1979-89 Afghanistan war.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18766384/britain-sends-ukraine-rockets-systems/
UK to give
Ukraine 80km-range MLR systems - defense secretary
02.06.2022 06:20
The United Kingdom will send multiple-launch rocket systems
to Ukraine to help defend itself against Russia, British Defense Secretary Ben
Wallace said on Wednesday.
That’s according to CNN, Ukrinform reports.
Britain will send M270 launchers able to strike targets up
to 80 kilometers (49.7 miles) away, offering “a significant boost in capability
for the Ukrainian forces,” according to a statement from the British Foreign
Office.
The move has been “coordinated closely” with the United
States decision to provide Ukraine with its High Mobility Artillery Rocket
System (HIMARS) – a variant of the multiple-launch rocket systems that will be
gifted by the UK, the statement added.
Read also: New security assistance package for Ukraine to
include HIMARS – Biden
“The UK stands with Ukraine and has taken a leading role in
supplying its heroic troops with the vital weapons they need to defend their
country,” Wallace said.
“As Russian’s tactics change, so must our support to
Ukraine,” he added. “These highly capable multiple-launch rocket systems will
enable our Ukrainian friends to better protect themselves against Russia’s
brutal use of long-range artillery, which Putin’s forces have used
indiscriminately to flatten cities.”
The British government also said that Ukrainian troops will
be trained on how to use the launchers in the UK, so the effectiveness of the
launchers can be maximized.
Earlier, U.S. President Joe Biden confirmed that the U.S.
was sending to Ukraine its HIMARS multiple rocket launchers to help the country
defend itself against the Russian onslaught.
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