Ukraine needs our help right now – military support but also social and economic assistance,” Sjoerd Sjoerdsma, the Dutch minister for foreign trade and development cooperation, said during a visit to Kyiv on Wednesday.“However successful you are on the battlefield, it’s also essential that energy systems, hospitals and food production keep ticking over,” he added.In a separate development, Zelenskyy thanked British Prime Minister Andy Burnham for a newly announced additional support package worth 10 billion pounds ($13.3bn) after a Wednesday morning phone call.“A truly strong and very timely step – coming right as Russia needs to see and feel that Ukraine will not be left alone to deal with the problems Russia is so eager to escalate,” Zelenskyy wrote on social media.According to Downing Street, the new British aid package for Ukraine includes 500 million pounds ($665m) in additional military support from the Ministry of Defence “to plug urgent gaps in Ukraine’s air defences this winter”.
Kremlin says European countries not included in next Ukraine talks
The comment comes as UK and Netherlands pledge extra military support for Kyiv.

