President Volodymyr Zelensky landed in the UK early Wednesday for what is only his second trip outside Ukraine in nearly a year of war.
Zelensky had, however, addressed Britain’s Parliament remotely in March, two weeks after the start of the invasion, when he famously echoed World War II leader Winston Churchill’s famous “never surrender” speech, vowing that Ukrainians “will fight till the end at sea, in the air. We will continue fighting for our land, whatever the cost.”
Sunak also announced that Britain will train Ukrainian pilots on “NATO-standard fighter jets.” More than 10,000 Ukrainian troops have also been trained at British bases, some on theThe UK is already one of Ukraine’s biggest backers and is now giving extra training to troops.“I am proud that today we will expand that training from soldiers to marines and fighter jet pilots, ensuring Ukraine has a military able to defend its interests well into the future,” Sunak said.
The EU’s legislature has slated a special plenary session in Brussels for Thursday in the hopes that Zelensky will be there. “They need to have something to show before their people, and have a major desire to do something big, as they see it, by this date,” Ukraine’s national security chief Oleksiy Danilov said Tuesday.
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