He added: "The Prime Minister knows what he is so he drags everyone else down with him." Mr Johnson said he he does not plan to resign and added that he paid his Fixed Penalty Notice immediately. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer told the house that the Prime Minister "knows he's dishonest". Downing Street declined to comment on the claims. At the weekend it was reported that he not only attend a leaving party for his former communications chief Lee Cain on November 13, 2020, but instigated it. Last week the PM was fined by the Metropolitan Police for attending a birthday bash thrown in his honour in the Cabinet room in June, 2020, while coronavirus restrictions were in place. The Prime Minister gave a statement to the House of Commons on Tuesday afternoon for the first time since he was fined by police for attending a lockdown-defying party at Downing Street. Mr Zelenskyy had announced that he was going to meet both men during a news conference held in an underground train station in Kyiv on Saturday night.īut the White House had refused to confirm that or discuss details of a possible visit - with US officials later revealing this was a contingency they had planned for.Boris Johnson has offered a "wholehearted apology" to the House of Commons after being fined over the Partygate scandal. "It will provide support for capabilities Ukraine needs, especially the fight in the Donbas," an official said. Meanwhile, the US has confirmed it has approved a $165m sale of ammunition for Ukraine. The new financing brings the total US security assistance to Ukraine since the invasion began to $3.7bn (£2.9bn). The pair have now left Ukrainian territory - and a media conference is expected to be held by Mr Blinken on the trip at around 6.30am.Īt the meeting in Kyiv, the US pledged another $700m in military aid to help the war effort, $322m of which is earmarked specifically for Ukraine.Ī further $400m (£312m) will be shared among 15 other nations in central and eastern Europe, as well as the Balkans. It was revealed overnight that US secretary of state Antony Blinken and defence secretary Lloyd Austin had met with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday. Now, he said, Ukraine is in need of "long-range fires". Speaking from the Ukraine-Poland border, Mr Austin said it is clear the nature of the fight in Ukraine has evolved in recent weeks. He also provided an insight into how he and defence secretary Lloyd Austin reached Kyiv, confirming the pair travelled by train from Poland. Mr Blinken added that a "sovereign, independent Ukraine will be around a lot longer" than Vladimir Putin will be in power in Russia. It is widely believed that Moscow thought the war with Russia would be over quickly, but grossly underestimated the ability of Ukrainian troops. Mr Blinken also claimed Russia is "failing in its war aims", while Ukraine is succeeding. "But Ukrainians are standing up, they're standing strong and they're doing that with the support that we have co-ordinated around the world." "It's true that Russia continues to try to brutalise parts of the country, and the death and destruction that we continue to see is horrific," Mr Blinken said. He said Russia is continuing to try and "brutalise" parts of Ukraine, adding that Ukrainians are "standing strong" in the face of a devastating war. US secretary of state Antony Blinken has been speaking in the last few moments following his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.
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