“The Prime Minister is set to accelerate the UK’s diplomatic and military support to Ukraine in the weeks ahead in a bid to push Russia further back and secure a lasting peace,” Downing Street said.Įmergency personnel work at the site where an apartment block was heavily damaged by a Russian missile strike in Dnipro on Saturday. The annexed Crimea peninsula is understood to be “tank country”.ĭowning Street declared that a “flurry of UK diplomatic activity” will take place around the world in the lead-up to the first anniversary of the start of the war on February 24. Russia has been building defensive fortifications of trenches and tank traps along its lines.Īnalysts told The National that the only way to break the deadlock is with an armoured division of more than 200 tanks and 500 armoured infantry fighting vehicles.

Mr Sunak said that he will “galvanise international action” by sending his foreign and defence secretaries to meet their Nato counterparts to devise a strategy “to break the stalemate”.įollowing Ukraine’s retaking of the Black Sea city of Kherson in November, the front line has been largely static.

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