Ukraine battle newest: UK unveils big navy support bundle for Ukraine – as Trump’s envoy heads to Moscow ‘for Putin assembly’ | World Information

John Healey, the UK’s defence secretary, is addressing members of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group at NATO’s headquarters in Brussels.

He says that his US counterpart, Pete Hegseth, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are each becoming a member of the assembly nearly.

“Our job as defence ministers is to get pressing navy support into the palms of Ukrainian warfighters,” Healey says. 

He urges these current to re-look at what they’ll present Kyiv. 

“Immediately, we’ll pledge billions extra [in more funding to Ukraine’s military],” he says. 

He additionally acknowledges the £350m the UK has dedicated this morning – a part of a wider £450m British-led bundle – which he says will strengthen British-Ukrainian industrial hyperlinks in addition to placing extra weapons in Kyiv’s palms. 

“2025 is the vital yr for the battle in Ukraine, and that is the vital second,” he says. 

“We stand with you within the combat and we stand with you within the peace,” Healey concludes.