November 19, 2024, marks 1,000 days since Russia launched its full-scale war against Ukraine. The international community must continue to show solidarity with Ukraine, a senior UN aid official said on Tuesday, marking 1,000 days after the Russian invasion.

Since July, UK has sanctioned almost forty vessels in Putin’s ‘shadow fleet’ of oil tankers, barring them from its ports and denying them access to its maritime services, according to UK foreign secretary, David Lammy.

“We have sanctioned firms who supply Russia’s military-industrial complex, including Chinese firms sending critical components, such as for drones,” David Lammy said in his oral statement to the House of Commons.

The foreign secretary noted that the House will debate a Bill confirming a new £2.26bn loan to Ukraine as part of a G7 package of $50bn.

The UK’s commitment to Ukraine remains “ironclad”, prime minister Keir Starmer said in a social media post on X.

The Prime Minister said: “Today is the sobering milestone of 1,000 days since Putin’s illegal invasion of Ukraine.”

“As the people of Ukraine continue to bravely defend their sovereignty, the UK’s commitment to them remains ironclad.”

Foreign ministers from Germany, France, Poland, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in Warsaw warned in a joint declaration on Tuesday of “Moscow’s escalating hybrid activities” against NATO and EU nations, calling them unprecedented in scale and potential impact.

The ministers said, among other thing, that they consider it imperative to invest in air defence, deep precision strikes, drones and integrated logistics, as well as in critical infrastructure and cyber defence, and invest in research and development, and in the use of new technologies.

“Russia is increasingly reliant on partners such as Iran and North Korea in order to sustain its illegal warfare,” they added in the joint statement.