British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will address the Ukrainian Parliament by videoconference, a first for a Western leader since the start of the war.
“This is your hour of glory,” he must tell MPs according to a statement from Downing Street published Monday evening, drawing a parallel with the unity displayed by the Parliament and the British people during the Second World War. “We remember our time of great peril as our hour of glory,” he said in his scheduled speech around 10 a.m.
He must announce on this occasion a new component of military aid worth 300 million pounds (357 million euros), including in particular defensive armament equipment. So far, the UK has supplied Ukraine with 5,000 anti-tank missiles, five anti-aircraft missile systems with over 100 missiles and 4.5 tons of explosives.