The prime minister made the comments while speaking at the NATO summit in Vilnius. It comes as the defence secretary Ben Wallace said the UK was not an 'Amazon' delivery service for weapons to Ukraine. Read more:
For a leader who has worked tirelessly to repair the damage from some of the provocative and loose language of his two predecessors, Rishi Sunak was understandably terse when asked about his defence secretary's comments on the sidelines of the summit.
He went on to talk about"very significant movements, moments along Ukraine's journey to membership" at the NATO summit, as he stressed what he saw as meaningful progress on its path to join. But, for a PM who is struggling so desperately back home, he can consider this NATO summit a success. He also said he warned them that they needed to provide better training for their troops to stop them from suffering such a high weekly rate of casualties as that would risk them losing political support.But Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pushed back against the defence secretary's comments, saying Mr Zelenskyy had"expressed his gratitude for what we've done on a number of occasions".
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