According to the UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace for SkyNews, his country gave Ukraine 184,000 unplanned artillery shellsThe country had also "donated significant quantities of military equipment, ammunitions and non-lethal aid" as Kyiv continued to defend its territory.
As Ben Wallace Having initially planned to send 16,000 "critical" shells to the war-torn nation in 2022, he explained there had been a 15-fold increase.
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy has regularly called for the West to supply more shells as his troops continue to fight against Russian, which has a greater stockpile of artillery.
Setting out a list of what the UK had provided to Ukraine up to 11 July, Mr Wallace said London had spent £2.3bn on support for its war effort between April 2022 and March 2023.
He said it put the UK only second to the US in terms of international donors of military aid.
As known, in July, the UK government announced a new package of aid for Ukraine worth nearly US$65 million to repair Ukrainian military equipment and set up a military rehabilitation centre.
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