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British Foreign Secretary David Cameron urges members of the US Congress to approve a Ukraine aid package. "We should be standing up for freedom, standing up for the right of this country to defend itself and making sure that Putin doesn't win," he says while on a visit to Bulgaria. The Republican leader of the US House of Representatives blocked war aid for Ukraine on February 13, ignoring President Joe Biden's plea that passing the bill was vital for standing up to Russian President Vladimir Putin. SOUNDBITE
During his speech at the Conservatives party conference in Manchester, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak calls on his allies to continue arming Kyiv to enable Ukraine to "finish the job" and repel the Russian invasion. SOUNDBITE
Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius says he believes the EU member will manage to send a first battalion of tanks to war-torn Ukraine by April. "I think we could deliver at least one battalion in the first four months of this year. Three months maybe. And then we have to proceed as fast as possible of course," he tells reporters while on a visit to Warsaw. SOUNDBITE
At a meeting of defence ministers at the Tapa military base in Estonia, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announces that the UK will send Ukraine an additional 600 Brimstone missiles to help it deal with the Russian invasion. SOUNDBITE
Britain's new prime minister, Rishi Sunak, vows to help Ukraine fight off Russia's invasion even as he warned of difficult financial choices ahead for his government. SOUNDBITE
On her first trip overseas since taking office, British Prime Minister Liz Truss vows before the United Nations to keep up military aid to Ukraine until it triumphs against Russia. SOUNDBITE
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