The UK will appoint a new envoy to oversee a plan to ramp up the production of weapons and ammunition, which is now a "national priority", the foreign secretary has revealed,
Sky News reports.
Lord Cameron, speaking on a visit to Ukraine, also underlined the importance of supporting the Ukrainian war effort against Russia, warning that the world was at an "absolutely critical tipping point" and Kyiv must prevail or else Europe faced a "very dangerous future".
However, he cautioned against an idea by French President Emmanuel Macron to consider sending NATO troops to Ukraine to join the fight if Russia's Vladimir Putin achieves a breakthrough, saying that such a move would be a "dangerous escalation".
"I don't think it is right to have NATO soldiers killing Russian soldiers," the foreign secretary said in an interview in the western city of Lviv today, having met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top ministers in Kyiv yesterday.
The foreign secretary said Europe faced "two futures" – one in which Ukrainian forces, backed by western weapons, are able to push out the Russian invaders and secure what he called a "just peace".
"That is a footing on which you can see great security and prosperity for us and for Europe," he said.
But he warned: "A future in which Putin is successful and Ukraine is pushed back is I think a very dangerous future."
