UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday, pledged that the United Kingdom would provide further support to Kiev in the coming days, Downing Street said in a statement.
“The Prime Minister committed to providing further UK support to Ukraine in the coming days,’’ Johnson said.
This was according to his office in the readout of the telephone conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday morning.
According to the statement, Zelenskyy updated Johnson on the most recent developments in Ukraine and the “terrible developments in Kyiv in the early hours of this morning.’’
In the early hours of Thursday, Russia launched an operation to demilitarise Ukraine after the republics of Donetsk and Luhansk requested assistance.
The Russian Defence Ministry said the operation was targeting the military infrastructure of Ukraine while the civilian population was not in danger.
Moscow said it had no plans to occupy Ukraine. (Sputnik/NAN)
