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The United Kingdom on Monday detailed its “most significant package of combat power” that it has pledged to Ukraine to bolster its military capacity, according to the British defense minister. The package includes Challenger 2 tanks, AS90s self-propelled guns, hundreds of armored vehicles, more than 100,000 artillery rounds and aerial systems, Defense Minister Ben Wallace said, while detailing a tranche of military support.
Wallace said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s resolve to “continue inflicting wanton violence” must be met with greater combat power, and he urged the international community to accelerate its diplomatic, economic and military efforts.
Ukraine’s calls for more advanced Western air defense systems and tanks — which have intensified after a strike on a Dnipro apartment building killed at least 40 people — will be front and center this week as top U.S. officials and allies meet in Europe to discuss support for Ukrainian forces.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
U.S. begins expanded training of Ukrainian forces for large-scale combat: The U.S. military has launched an expanded training program for Ukrainian troops in Germany that is focused on large-scale combat and meant to bolster Ukraine’s ability to take back territory from Russian forces, the Pentagon’s top general said Sunday.
“We want the Ukrainians to have a capability to successfully defend their country,” Gen. Mark A. Milley said in an interview with The Post’s Dan Lamothe aboard a U.S. military aircraft over Europe.
About 500 soldiers will go through the initial version of training, focused on what the military calls combined-arms warfare, in which tanks, artillery, combat vehicles and other weapons are layered to maximize the violence they inflict.
Kamila Hrabchuk, Natalia Abbakumova, Paul Sonne and Isabelle Khurshudyan contributed to this report.