UK calls for aircraft provision to Ukraine

The UK Foreign Secretary has called for the delivery of heavier weapons to Ukraine, including apparent references to combat air capabilities, in a keynote speech at Mansion House, London, on April 27. Since Russia expanded its invasion of Ukraine on February 24 this year, NATO members have sought to counter the quantitative and, in certain cases, qualitative edge Moscow’s forces have through the provision of increasingly kinetic military capabilities. Poland recently offered to donate its MiG-29 fleet to Ukraine, as