The UK's decision to send Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine is "crucial", Ukraine MP Lesia Vasylenko has said.

Speaking to Sky's Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme, Ms Vasylenko said: "For the fighting on the ground, on the eastern, southeastern, northeastern and or a contact line, it is crucial that we have artillery".

She went on to say that after Ukraine's victory, citizens in the country would have "a lot of mending to do".

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