Britain is providing Ukraine with 650 new lightweight missiles in a package worth £162 million, it announced on Friday.

The Thales-made Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM) has a range of more than six kilometres (3.73 miles), the Ministry of Defence said, and can be fired from platforms on land, sea, and air.

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The announcement comes after Russia launched 200 missiles and drones at Ukraine on Monday, killing seven people and damaging energy infrastructure nationwide, in what Kyiv described as the war’s “most massive” attack.

Kyiv has repeatedly called on Western nations to expedite the delivery of air defence support systems to help defend itself from Moscow’s missile and drone attacks.

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The new supply of missiles, announced by John Healey, the defence secretary, at a US air base in Germany, is expected to arrive by the end of the year.

“This new commitment will give an important boost to Ukraine’s air defences,” Mr Healey said in a statement.

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