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The UK’s new Prime Minister has vowed to continue “unwavering” support for Ukraine and has greenlit Ukrainian access to military technology the UK had not previously shared.
Getting into it: The meeting, which occurred on Monday at a naval base in Portsmouth, made Volodymyr Zelenskyy the first foreign leader Andy Burnham has hosted since taking over Downing Street on July 20. He said, “You are the first leader I have welcomed in person since taking office, and that is no accident,” Burnham told Zelenskyy. “We are with Ukraine 100 percent. I am personally with you 100 percent. Russia should be in no doubt of our resolve, and we will not back down until we achieve long-lasting and just peace for Ukraine,” he added.
The biggest thing to come out of the meeting was that the UK is handing over the intellectual property for “Stone Cloak,” an electronic warfare system that jams Russian air defenses so drones cannot be detected. The tablet-sized jammers have already been supplied to Ukrainian forces by the thousands and tested in combat, and the transfer means Ukraine can now mass-produce them itself rather than waiting on British deliveries.
That is where Western support has been heading in general: less about shipping over finished weapons and more about handing Kyiv the blueprints and the rights to build its own.
Zelenskyy called the relationship “stronger than ever,” but he arrived with a list of urgent needs. He told Sky News he wants a strong “drone deal” with Britain and admitted Ukraine does not have enough missiles to defend against the high-speed Russian ballistic strikes that have battered its cities.
This all comes as Zelenskyy is set to meet with Trump in Washington, DC, seeking more interceptors to stop those attacks and a restart of stalled peace talks. He’s also hoping the US Senate will pass a new Russia sanctions bill that the late Sen. Lindsey Graham spent a year pushing, with talk it could hit the floor as soon as Tuesday.






