The United Kingdom informed the European Union of its shipment of weapons to Kyiv, which includes tanks, drones and anti-aircraft defence systems, said Starmer, despite the opposition of British organizations that demand the suspension of this aid.

The current Labour team dashed the hope of a change in the policy of the Conservatives that turned the United Kingdom into one of the main suppliers of weapons to Kyiv.

At the beginning of this year, protests were held in London to demand that Starmer suspend the licenses that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must grant to arms companies to send their products to Ukraine.

Many of the modern Challenger-2 tanks sent to the former Soviet republic were later displayed in an open-air museum in Moscow as war trophies of Russian troops.

On February 24, 2022, President Vladimir Putin ordered a special operation to protect the population of the rebellious Donbas region, as well as to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine.

Moscow warns that supplying more weapons to kyiv will only prolong the conflict, in which, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Ukrainian troops have lost almost a million soldiers since the beginning of the confrontation.

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