SpaceWar.com reports: “The UK will send Ukraine 650 new specialist missile systems to boost its air defences, London said Friday, weeks after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky criticised the pace of weapons deliveries.

The first batch of the ‘Lightweight Multirole Missile (LMM)’ systems — made by French defence group Thales — were set to be dispatched by the end of the year, the government said, as it bids to ‘speed up deliveries of aid’.

The GBP 162-million ($213-million) package will be formally announced by Defence Secretary John Healey at a meeting Friday of Ukraine’s Western allies in Germany.

‘This new commitment will give an important boost to Ukraine’s air defences and demonstrates our new government’s commitment to stepping up support for Ukraine,’ he said in a statement.

‘In recent days we have seen the tragic cost of Russia’s indiscriminate strikes on Poltava and Lviv.’

‘These new UK-made missiles will support Ukraine to defend its people, infrastructure, and territory.’…”