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UK military aid to Ukraine could rise to £500m, MPs told

Defence secretary Ben Wallace says UK will send Stormer missile launchers as part of effort to drive out Russians

The UK has supplied £200m of military aid to Ukraine, the defence secretary has said, as he confirmed Britain would send a “small number” of Stormer missile launchers to Ukraine and offer a deployment of Challenger 2 tanks to Poland.

In a statement to MPs, Ben Wallace said gifts of weapons by Britain could eventually total £500m, and he said 15,000 Russian soldiers had died since the invasion began on 24 February.

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