Overview

• Defence Secretary John Healey said more than £1 billion from immobilised Russian assets paid for Ukraine-bound munitions, air-defence missiles, spare parts and new support contracts.
• The Ministry of Defence detailed purchases including hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds and hundreds of air-defence missiles to sustain Kyiv’s war effort.
• Dmitry Medvedev warned Russia could seize British property and take more Ukrainian territory in retaliation, saying Moscow would seek to “return it in kind.”
• Medvedev threatened to confiscate “valuables of the British Crown” in Russia and insulted Foreign Secretary David Lammy as “the English idiot.”
• UK figures show roughly £25 billion in Russian assets frozen domestically, with the Treasury estimating allied sanctions have deprived Russia of more than £297 billion since 2022.