Sunak says UK military budget to be increased by £5bn

Rishi Sunak, the British prime minister, said his country will increase defense spending by £5 billion (about US$6 billion) over the next two years. This is reported by RIA Novosti, referring to the British newspaper Telegraph.

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According to the publication, London has allocated 71.4 billion pounds for defense in 2021-2022. It is known that earlier the British Minister of Defense demanded that the Treasury increase the defense budget by 8-11 billion pounds.

According to the publication, an additional 5 billion pounds will increase defense spending to 2.25% of GDP by 2025. It is noted that in 2020 this figure was 2%.

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