UK military aid to Ukraine could rise to £500m, MPs told

Defence secretary Ben Wallace says UK will send Stormer missile launchers as part of effort to drive out Russians

The UK has supplied 200m of military aid to Ukraine, the defence secretary has said, as he confirmed Britain would send a small number" of Stormer missile launchers to Ukraine and offer a deployment of Challenger 2 tanks to Poland.

In a statement to MPs, Ben Wallace said gifts of weapons by Britain could eventually total 500m, and he said 15,000 Russian soldiers had died since the invasion began on 24 February.