London rejects Ukraine helicopters claim

The British government has denied a media report claiming that it would supply Ukraine with AH-64 Apache attack helicopters, Sky News stated on Sunday. The UK still intends to donate a handful of tanks and artillery guns.

In an article that has since been deleted, the Sunday People, an outlet that shares a website with The Mirror, claimed that the arrival of the US-made choppers would be “a major game-changer” for Ukraine’s forces, which recently lost the strategically important Donbass town of Soledar to Russian forces, sustaining horrific losses in the process.

Citing an unnamed “senior defense source,” the paper said that “other NATO members will now follow suit” and donate their own helicopters.

However, the article was “incorrect,” the Ministry of Defence told Sky News correspondent Deborah Haynes.