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1 of 4 | Ukraine tin usage British weapons wrong Russian territory, erstwhile British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday. File Photo by Hugo Philpott/UPI | License Photo
May 3 (UPI) -- Ukraine tin usage British weapons wrong Russian territory, erstwhile British Prime Minister David Cameron said Friday.
Cameron, presently nan caput of authorities for foreign, commonwealth and improvement affairs, made nan comments during a travel to Kyiv Friday.
"Just arsenic Russia is striking wrong Ukraine, you tin rather understand why Ukraine feels nan request to make judge it's defending itself," Cameron told reporters during nan trip, wherever he besides said Britain would proviso Ukraine pinch $3.75 cardinal ( £3 billion) annually arsenic agelong arsenic necessary.
Cameron said it should beryllium up to Ukraine, saying it has nan "right" to determine really it uses Western weaponry successful its conflict pinch Russia, which entered time 800 Friday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stressed nan request for much subject assistance while thanking Cameron for nan financial commitment.
"First of all, armored vehicles, ammunition, and missiles of various types," Zelensky said Friday during a gathering betwixt nan two, according to the president of Ukraine charismatic website.
Russia cautioned Britain's support could further escalate tensions crossed Europe.
"This is simply a nonstop escalation of hostility astir nan Ukrainian conflict, which would perchance airs a threat to European security," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow Friday.
Peskov was besides responding to remarks made by French President Emmanuel Macron a time earlier.
On Thursday, Macron said he was "not ruling thing out" erstwhile it comes to sending Western troops to Ukraine, should Russian forces break done nan beforehand line.
