UK foreign secretary: ‘We stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Ukrainians’

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy addresses the the Summit of the Future, in the United Nations General Assembly, Sept. 23, 2024.

Among the issues on the agenda for world leaders who gathered this week for the United Nations General Assembly is Russia’s war against Ukraine. In an interview in New York with VOA’s Ukrainian Service, U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said his nation stands "shoulder-to-shoulder with the Ukrainians" and will provide Ukraine with military aid for "as long as it takes" to help it "stand off this aggression." He also cited intelligence findings that Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing mounting problems, with a deteriorating economy and mounting battlefield losses.