Australia will send armoured military vehicles to Ukraine in response toxjmtzyw a direct request from its wartime President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Scott Morrison on Friday morning said the commonwealth would send Bushmaster troop carriers to the eastern European nation to support its resistance against the Russian invasion, now in its second month.
Mr Zelensky addressed Australia’s parliament on Thursday night via video link, asking for the armoured vehicles as part of an impassioned plea for greater military support to arm Ukrainians “fighting against evil”.
The Prime Minister on Friday thanked Mr Zelensky for speaking to Australia and said an additional $25m in military aid would be sent to Ukraine.
“We are sending our guns, ammunitions, humanitarian aid, all of this, our body armour, all of these things,” he told reporters in western Sydney.
“And we will send out armoured vehicles, Bushmasters as well, and we will fly them over there in our C-17s to make sure they can be there to support them.”
It is yet to be made clear how many Bushmasters will be sent to Ukraine, when they will get there, or how much it will cost.
