Analysis: How much will the UK's new £500m military aid package help Ukraine?
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a £500m military aid package to Ukraine in its war against Russia alongside the UK's largest provision of munitions so far.
Some 400 vehicles, 60 boats, 1,600 strike and air defence missiles, and four million rounds of ammunition are included in the package.
Defence and security analyst Professor Michael Clarke has more.
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like the old saying goes no money for the people of your own country but plenty of money for war
@themagicman371
8 күн бұрын
Is that an old saying? I've never heard that one before
Gas and electric to rise again maybe ??
@naeedaafzal3055
11 күн бұрын
Yes especially in winter than in summer they make fool of us and put it down
I don't know how much 500 million pound will help Ukraine, but it sure as hell isn't helping us.
@StarSprangledBanner
12 күн бұрын
US is sending 64 B. Be humble.
@jamal22958
12 күн бұрын
For real. We shouldnt pay our nurses and doctors more but rather invest (money launder) into sending planes to rwanda and somehow having money for Ukraine
@rnottrnott5528
12 күн бұрын
UK’s been on a steady decline for a long time now
@Xenomorphine
12 күн бұрын
It will mostly be largely in terms of valuation of the equipment, which is most likely at the end of its shelf life and would otherwise cost money to decommission.
@arthura7851
12 күн бұрын
But i am sure, it will do nothing.
Where is the 500 million aid package for the people of Britain?
@16252
12 күн бұрын
The people who voted for Brexit thought they didn't need it.
@onestepbeyond5221
12 күн бұрын
I wonder if some white feathers said this in 1939? 🤔. Let's double it!! 🇺🇦👍
@SamFBM
12 күн бұрын
they dont actually give 500 mil over in cash. we give them old stuff and buy new stuff
@jackbleiham8475
11 күн бұрын
@@SamFBMso who pays for the new stuff ?
@naeedaafzal3055
11 күн бұрын
They all just split the money amongst themselves abd than blame Muslims 😅
Ukraine has never helped UK or been a friend. UK should help UK people
@GOE378
12 күн бұрын
Go and ask Boris Johnson
@onestepbeyond5221
12 күн бұрын
Hi putler how's that old ship?
@16252
12 күн бұрын
If only Mr Putin shared your logic, then tens of thousands of people wouldn't have died in this stupid war. But he doesn't.
@ronin36963
12 күн бұрын
I can't think of any nation or people Ukrainians have ever helped.
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
The head of the Ukrainian security service has already admitted to organizing terrorist attacks on Russian territory (The head of the SBU, Malyuk, in an interview with ICTV, admitted to organizing terrorist attacks in Russia.); in fact, they are engaged in terrorism with the money of Western taxpayers
No budget for UK but alot for Ukraine
@onestepbeyond5221
12 күн бұрын
Yesss from a real brit 🙏👍🇺🇦
@danielwatson3273
12 күн бұрын
Great idea, send money to the most corrupt country in Europe, it's a joke.
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
For terrorism. The head of the Ukrainian security service has already admitted to organizing terrorist attacks on Russian territory (The head of the SBU, Malyuk, in an interview with ICTV, admitted to organizing terrorist attacks in Russia.); in fact, they are engaged in terrorism with the money of Western taxpayers
@lw1zfog
11 күн бұрын
@@onestepbeyond5221 ‘rEaL bRit’ 😂🤣😂🤦🏽♂️🥴🤡
that 500 million could of gone to the NHS to clear uo waiting times.
@andrewwright.
12 күн бұрын
aid....as in no money hahahaha
@yevhenhorilyy965
12 күн бұрын
Nope, it couldn’t. Because they don’t send Ukraine brand new stuff. Most items they send are well used and would have been recycled soon anyway.
@janiszumanis354
12 күн бұрын
@@andrewwright. Not for ukr
@Luciry123
12 күн бұрын
@@yevhenhorilyy965 there is 6.2 Million waiting on NHS treatment in England and Wales. Give the NHS the aid package and that 4 million rounds of Ammo can put our waiting list down to 2.2 Million
@1nodmonkey
12 күн бұрын
@@Luciry123you actually think it works like that 😂
No wonder our tax's are going through the roof
isint that 10x the PIP bill?
@BobBuilder-mq9wr
12 күн бұрын
Pip bill is huge!! I know somebody just been given 12k handout and a 28k nissan juke!! Its a joke
TORIES MAGIC MONEY TREE BEEN FOUND 😂
@lw1zfog
11 күн бұрын
Bullingdon boris just happened to stumble over it whilst exiting a fridge
I just wsh the government cared this much about its own borders.
@16252
12 күн бұрын
If Putin wins then tens of millions of refugees will enter the rest of Europe from Ukraine. And that will cost much more.
Meanwhile back in Uk still nothing being done to help our own without decent rooms to live in. Britain first....
Give that 500 mil. to the nurses, doctors and drivers on the London Underground not to strike!
@Bungle-UK
12 күн бұрын
Tube drivers already get £65k a year to sit on their backsides and push a few buttons.
What the hell? This corruption needs to stop.
Yet another reason the Tories are toast. This is disgusting.
@burns281981
12 күн бұрын
Always great to hear what the foreigners who have never stepped foot in the nation think of the leader.
@davidkarl9935
12 күн бұрын
Where was Starmer and the supposedly other 'opposition parties' opposing this? Same arse different cheeks all pushing the same agenda.
@danielwatson3273
12 күн бұрын
It'll be the same with Labour, but with more spending, rainbow flags and dei nonsense.
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
It is so epic: Sanctions didn’t work. Billions in weapons didn’t work. Unwavering support didn’t work. Counter-offensive didn’t work. Non-stop propaganda didn’t work. Rules-based terrorism is all they have left. It won’t work either. It just shows how evil and desperate they are.
@Ricky-tr2hd
11 күн бұрын
I agree, but the lunatics on the BBC comment section won't agree.
I don't remember the government asking me how to spend my hard earned money
It amounts to no sick pay for Brits 😮
@burns281981
12 күн бұрын
How did your brain possible fart that out?
@janiszumanis354
12 күн бұрын
@@burns281981💩💩💩💩💩
@onestepbeyond5221
12 күн бұрын
@@burns281981these bots and shills are going into meltdown because they know a storm is coming! 😎
Brits are forgetting how they relied on outside help in 40s.
Someones making ££££ Money , and , probably , A Tory party Donor
@kynchan3332
9 күн бұрын
They don't have long.
I was surprised to hear Ukrainians are returning to Ukrain to access decent health services because UK waiting times are so long.
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
even the degraded remnants of Soviet medicine are better than today's British healthcare system.
@marviwilson1853
10 күн бұрын
Then don't drink, smoke, ride motor bikes and exercise more.
that money should be for the poor not war!!!!!!!!!
@petef15
12 күн бұрын
So just let Russia take Ukraine then? (and then Moldova, Romania, Estonia, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland - congratulations - the border is now 1/3rd it's original length)
@mark140363
12 күн бұрын
Прости, Иван. Никакой тебе сегодня картошки.
@thoraadam9049
12 күн бұрын
@@petef15 Russia is only interested in the US puppet aka Ukraine
@daveanderson3805
12 күн бұрын
Not my problem. The erosion of our living standards and the amount of homeless on our streets is. I am not concerned with Ukraine. I am concerned with our standards of living, and everything that goes with that. And don't bother calling me a russian bod. I really, really don't care who wins and who doesn't win. Iam British, and I don't have dog in this race. But I know that my utility bills and my shopping bills have gone up for no good reason @petef15
@antonironstag5085
12 күн бұрын
@@petef15 who cares if they do? let russia do what it wants and let our government look after our own first
Once again taxpayers paying for wars while we struggle to pay our taxes! Cheers
@yevhenhorilyy965
12 күн бұрын
Wrong! they don’t send Ukraine brand new stuff. Most items they send are well used and would have been recycled soon anyway. Keep paying taxes and don’t worry
@thoraadam9049
12 күн бұрын
@@yevhenhorilyy965 What does a £500m aid package mean?
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
The head of the SBU, Malyuk, in an interview with ICTV, admitted to organizing terrorist attacks in Russia.); in fact, they are engaged in terrorism with the money of Western taxpayers
500 million will go nowhere, couple of months and Ukraine will be back to congress for more aid if they last that long.
Their last big waste of money before Sunak gets evicted. 500 million. That should have been spent on the NHS or the homeless. I am so sick of both our government and the beggar of Kiev
@yevhenhorilyy965
12 күн бұрын
Has nothing to do with NHS money.
@daveanderson3805
12 күн бұрын
@@yevhenhorilyy965 It has everything to do with the NHS, and everything else. If our unelected PM squanders tax money on projects that have nothing to do with us, then that money is gone, and not available for the things that matter, for example the NHS or our homelessness crisis, or the attack on our standards of living. Some damn civil war a continent away is not, nor should it be, our concern. Let's put British people first. Besides, it's bad business. The beggar of Kiev will not, nor can he, pay back all the money he has scavenged of the world and his wife. Never!!
Sure, 500m taxpayer money laundered
@holp7919
12 күн бұрын
plus the money pit tp rwanda and the zionists
500 million for 500000 dead people, Average age of Ukraine soldier now 50,add pregnant ladies and mentally ill individuals.looking good Rishi
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
and the head of the SBU, Malyuk, in an interview with ICTV, admitted to organizing terrorist attacks in Russia. in fact, they are engaged in terrorism with the money of Western taxpayers
Hands off the U.K.’s hard earned Taxpayer’s money. This mad figure is URGENTLY NEEDED HERE AT HOME. Let other countries pay up
....peace sooner than later....to stop spending..........✌️
He won’t be here long so he can promise what ever he wants
@marviwilson1853
10 күн бұрын
This is cross party assistance. It is irrelevant who is in power.
What's this with the " glide " bombs doing so much damage. One county is using 2000kg bombs and is leveling entire city blocks in densely populated area ( and they are not "glide " bombs )
Hypocrite people and media. First of all britain and USA shouldnt take nuclear arsenal from ukraine in 1993 and second they shouldnt use ukraine as a weapon against russia and no .3 ukraine it is a made country that took territories from Hungary , Poland and Romania.
@FunkySpaceLord
12 күн бұрын
Hungary Romania and Poland do not care Trollski.
@nickzak9163
12 күн бұрын
The nuclear weapons were given up by Ukraine in return for support if Ukraine needed it. Are they getting it?
@paulfairbairn1066
12 күн бұрын
I thought Russia had the nuclear weapons.
@alfatar6183
12 күн бұрын
Ukraine never possessed a nuclear arsenal - the nuclear arsenal belonged to the USSR and was controlled by Moscow. Missiles with nuclear warheads were also in Kazakhstan, the Baltic States, Central Asia and the Caucasian republics! The USA and the British insisted that the Russian Federation collect its arsenal because the others did not have the knowledge and the ability to maintain it and were afraid that it would fall into terrorist organizations! Ukraine could not even build a cartridge factory in 30 years.
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
@@nickzak9163 These were Soviet nuclear weapons that were controlled, owned by Moscow, just as American nuclear weapons are now in the EU, completely controlled by the Americans, and owned by the Americans.
No money for the british and yet we have money for war 😂 absolute joke
Is the PM going to give a package to sort out umpteen things in this country, at some time ?
lol over 20k views and only 320 likes. MSM are dead
Economy>Defense>Everything else
Its right to help Ukraine .. To many people only think of themselves..there's much more than 500 million wasted through corruption and incompetence ..
101 comments at this time not 1 supporting this aid
@emanuelb3456
7 күн бұрын
I wrote 10, because I couldn't stand the lies.
An 'aid package' with my money, against my will! 👎
It will help in the short term. But depends what will be sent and when. If nothing is available.
A new pair of diamond earrings for Olena Zelensky maybe, as her people suffer ?
@jeanwood6392
12 күн бұрын
Or two more luxury villas in France.
@Xenomorphine
12 күн бұрын
Stop spewing Kremlin nonsense, bot.
@lw1zfog
11 күн бұрын
@@Xenomorphine NAFO 77ths & ukrobots should have learned to read the room by now 😂
Doctors ask for a pay rise and we have no money, so where does this £500m come from? Never gets explained.
I wonder how much of that will be going out the back door?, not one of them calling for peace talks.
Zelenski will be offended and refuse that paltry sum......
Russian trolls don't like this trick.
They've awoken a sleeping great bear from it's slumbers (that is angry as hell with all the piggy's) and now a sleeping dragon is being poked. The scorching.
That could help Britain s school s
It's theft of our hard earned tax
@lw1zfog
11 күн бұрын
it’s at scale globalist money laundering
How about £500 , 000 being spent on our 3rd World Roads.
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
Zelensky needs 500k solders to replace the 30k that they lost.
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
The Russians, by the way, have already repaired the old road from Donetsk to Mariupol , road better than in London.
@emanuelb3456
7 күн бұрын
How about 5 billion instead. The Russian Fascism needs to be stopped.
@stephenm9285
7 күн бұрын
@@efghggdxlmfn33for military purposes; Putin follows the old Roman Empire model when it comes to building and upgrading roads.
What is Military Aid - is UK giving the arms to Ukraine or is the UK sending Ukraine the arms and Ukraine has to repay the UK for those arms. If the latter then with the US & UK aid Ukraine is in a lot of debt ??
@Kawaii652
12 күн бұрын
Think Ukraine just belongs to the us at this point
What a disgrace the money is needed here the uk
500,000,000 is not much. For the military? This will create new jobs for UK citizens but... it feels like it's missile a 0 in there.
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
and zelensky needs just 500k solders to replace the '30'k that he lost.
@Joelmonterrey
11 күн бұрын
@@efghggdxlmfn33 We don't know how many were lost because that is not public information and we, the allies, are not reporting it either even though we have open source information just like we do for the dead, wounded, MIA Russian invaders.
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
@@Joelmonterrey no more place in ukranian cemeteries. fact
@lw1zfog
11 күн бұрын
@@Joelmonterrey 🥴🤦🏽♂️🤡
I don't think so is not the first time
Hyper inflation coming soon and they will still blame liz lol the worst part is some people believe it
@ryanlynock7546
12 күн бұрын
i cant believe ppl still believe the fake stream media
@bobbymozza
12 күн бұрын
They'll blame the poor, like they did with the recession, even though it was caused by the banks and the rich.
The headline says Sunak announces 500 billion !
Probably help bail out Lord Ashcroft from his dicey investments there.
Pensioners and disabled need that money
@emanuelb3456
7 күн бұрын
Write a petition to Putin
@cagcos
7 күн бұрын
@@emanuelb3456 🥇
Never any war footage is there .........
Love Mick, great job.
Ffs taxpayers money for citizens of this country!!!!
The UK is a USA Province, it can not make Independent decisions unfortunately. When the USA says they should pay , they jump and pay . They were dragged into Iraqi and Afghanistan wars because they can not make any Independent decisions. Shame
Ricky quite good at spending English people's money on other countries
@lw1zfog
11 күн бұрын
he was trained well in financial crime during his time at Goldman $achs
Just following orders!! Having said that....Labour would be doing the same, probably more!! WE are well and truley stitched to f..k up!!
@lw1zfog
11 күн бұрын
the City of London Corporation owns & operates all qualifying teams
I don't want to spend my money over there.
Great work Heroes! 💙 Ukraine is NOT Russia #PutinWarCriminal
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
Zelensky's Ukraine doesn’t allow free speech, a free press or elections, right
Clark is so kool. 😎
The U.S. gave over $60 billion. Is that the best the UK can do? What a bunch of Brokies.
a good job this is only one thing this government can do
If we don't spend the money helping Ukraine now, it will cost us far more later. If the democracies fund Ukraine well, they can beat Putin.
Warmonger
@emanuelb3456
7 күн бұрын
Warmonger is Putin's middle name.
Stop paying taxes
They decide to send hundreds of millions but don’t fix their own county
U cijelom svijetu mir mir mir mir 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
We could billed new homes improved transportation create new job opportunities instead of a proxy war so that nato can expand and save Ukraine life !!
@lbunnygordon1133
12 күн бұрын
That s it Ukraine 1st Uk last is govt motto. More homeless more struggling cant live adequately .. cant heat cant eat...why is this givt backing Ukraine not it s own people 😢😢😢
@bobbymozza
12 күн бұрын
Prolonging the war will cost more lives. Ultimately Ukraine will not win the war.
Michael Clarke; professor of getting things consistently wrong for over two years.
...and whilst he's giving such sums to foreign countries, he has this country's most vulnerable in his crosshairs. Fk the Ukraine mafia. Let them fund the fights they pick themselves. What does the UK get out of this VERY expensive arrangement?
Nowhere man Ritchie Sunak and two chumps arrive in Warsaw.
Am sorry for the people of UK to have a such type of government ,,, I normally see UK people crying ....and now supporting wars stupidity ...okay let them send but Russia is not easy in return uk people will be suffering .
Rawanda bill VS Ukraine £500m….
Slava Ukraini from IL 🇺🇸 to all the Russian bots, Enjoy your mobilization😂
I'll summarise this comment section so nobody needs to scroll through it: "As a genuine britisher person myself, we need this monies to buy our british things like fishes and chips and not defy glorious leader putin"
500 million that could help the poorer BRITISH FAMILIES!!! HE will spend it on another yacht no doubt while MORE young Ukrainian men die for America!
@yevhenhorilyy965
12 күн бұрын
No cash money has been given. Only military aid, mostly used items that are no longer in use by the British army.
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
Zelensky just needs more 500k solders to replace the 30k that he lost. And money for sure.
@lw1zfog
11 күн бұрын
@@yevhenhorilyy965 🥴🤦🏽♂️🤡
It will swell the offshore accounts of Zelensky and his favourites.
@emanuelb3456
7 күн бұрын
compared to Putin's its very embracing
The US and Europe must keep giving unlimited money and arms to Ukraine for as long as it takes. For what exactly?
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
for covering Ze&Biden's crimes
I need some of that money.
People are dying due to late treatment because of Tories failure, more money going toward Ukraine, Palestine, Israel.
It could pay for uoti 5 missiles to stop 5 Iranian drones supplied to russia
@cdeford2
12 күн бұрын
Iran doesn't supply drones to Russia (they may have at one time). The Russians make their own under licence.
Stop the boats
@gavinmc5285
12 күн бұрын
Stop the boats
@davidkarl9935
12 күн бұрын
The only way the boats are going to stop and all the other nonsense going on this country is to put all the corrupt politicians on trial before the men and women of this country as their jurors and carry out the appropriate sentencing for treason, which is........?
If old vincey was Ukraine I would spend it all on sweets
They should be paying Tommy Robinson's legal fees.
PNAC PROXY WAR PNAC PROXY PUPPETS
Good
@lw1zfog
11 күн бұрын
it was a question .... so ?
So our tax money will go to their friends iin the weapons manfacturing?
It will help Ukraine pay salaries of Ukrainians government employees.
@lw1zfog
11 күн бұрын
the irish govt just spent tens of thousands on importing ukronion ‘refugees’ pets 😂
MONEY LAUNDERING WILL NOW BE CALLED FOREIGN AID
USA gave a retirement amount for Zelensky. Britain gave cash to buy toilet paper.
Sticky Vicky had to quit, her project is going up sXXt creek.
USA gave 60b and UK only 0.5b? Please give away at least $10b of your taxpayers hard earned taxes
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
for direct military assistance, only less than 10b will remain. the rest is interest payments. BlackRock is happy
@user-kr4uv2jt1w
11 күн бұрын
UK should give 70b because UK is in Europe.
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
@@user-kr4uv2jt1w military experts are already predicting that the loss of the Donetsk fortified area (and this is where everything is heading), which took 10 years to build, will lead to the uncontrolled advance of Russian troops and the loss of Ukraine’s entire left bank.
@user-kr4uv2jt1w
11 күн бұрын
@@efghggdxlmfn33 UK needs more debts because of bad karma.
So if $200 billion on game changing weapons, a failed offensive, the loss of 100s of thousands of Ukraines best soldiers, the loss of most of Ukraines air defence systems, and Russia gaining ground in Donestk. What is $60 billion more gonna do?
@lw1zfog
11 күн бұрын
another boost for M.I.C. shareholders
Unelected sunak throwing our money away on an unwinable war, whole UK infastructure falls apart.
Why do they hate Russia so much
@themanwiththegoldengun1998
12 күн бұрын
Because Russia is sat on trillions upon trillions of minerals and resources and don't want to share, the west knows this and was hoping Pultin would of been ran out of Moscow by now to walk in and take what they want... But now they've bit off abit more than they can chew and now entrenching their own people into poverty...
@efghggdxlmfn33
11 күн бұрын
old historical British pain. Another representative of the Conservative Party, T. Attwood, in an impassioned speech claimed that England had been subjected to unheard-of humiliation. Tomorrow the Russians will have fortresses in the Dardanelles, and it will take a million pounds to dislodge them from there. He ended his speech on a hysterical Russophobic note: “In a few years, these barbarians will learn to wield a sword, bayonet and musket with almost the same skill as civilized people.” The time has come to declare war on Russia, “in order to raise Persia against it, on the one hand, and Turkey on the other. Poland will not stand aside, and Russia will crumble like a clay pot.” Attwood was not alone in his anger; J. Temperley wrote about the “barking of the parliamentary pack.” [Since 1833, the ruling circles of England have been trying to achieve the cancellation of this treaty and weaken Russia's position in the East.'