US ‘to provide further £1.8 billion in military aid to Ukraine’

US secretary of defence Lloyd Austin (Virginia Mayo/AP)

US defence secretary Lloyd Austin has said the US will soon announce an additional 2.3 billion dollars (£1.8 billion) in security assistance for Ukraine, to include anti-tank weapons, interceptors and munitions for Patriot and other air defence systems.

The announcement came as Ukrainian defence minister Rustem Umerov met Mr Austin at the Pentagon.