Overview

• Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the UK will send 350 ASRAAM air defence missiles paid for with £70m in interest from frozen Russian assets.
• RAF engineers and MBDA UK converted the air-to-air missiles for ground launch in three months and they will be fielded on military trucks using 13 Raven launch systems.
• The new missile package raises Britain’s total military aid to Ukraine this year to £4.5bn, its largest-ever annual commitment.
• Russian missile strikes killed at least 24 civilians and injured over 200 in Dnipro, Samar and Kherson this week, officials said.
• Starmer and President Volodymyr Zelensky agreed on closer military production ties after meeting ahead of the NATO summit in The Hague.