How the £500 million UK aid package will help ‘desperate’ Ukraine | Cormac Smith 

It would make a huge difference spent on the NHS

Cancel that council tax.criminals in power

500 million!!! The UK can’t even spare £100 to a homeless person who is on the brink of starvation.

While British veterans & citizens sleep rough we have money for foreign wars & asylum seekers but not for our own social security 🤮🤮

We are broke...... Let's send Ukraine £500 million of taxpayers money, yeah alright joker

Ukraine sovereignty so important yet our own not worth nothing whatsoever 🤔

It will help arms manufacturers, that's all.

It would be nice to have most of our roads fixed. It’s unbearable.

It's not our war.....I do not pay taxes to support Ukraine.....

Why are we paying for this.??????uk needs to look after our own …..

Most of it will be spent on British arms, it's almost misleading to suggest it's going to Ukraine, it's going to British arms dealers

£500 million? Should last a week or two.

We have got money to prolong foreign wars at the cost of NHS and homelessness here.

Do the British public get a say in any of this? I'd rather it be spent on something worthwhile not putting us first in the queue for nuclear attack.

Lets face it Ukraine has lost. Russia has won. No point flogging a dead horse. Can we just save our money. I remember 15 years ago, there used to be day centres for the elderly, where i as a taxi driver used to pick the elderly and bring them twice a week to these centres. They had a meal, played games and for some, this was their only time out of their homes. Sad sad place the UK has become. Stop giving money away and make our own citizens lives bearable.

Now you know why the retirement age is being set at 71 money lundering costs money

As tax payers we are complicit in this. So if we don’t stand up against this then we are supporting this.

I'm happy that the people in comment section are not happy with this war funding

What a joke probably robbed off Disabled 😒

300mil of that will go in to Zelenskis back pocket

ANY taxpayer's money sent abroad should be deducted from the incredibly wasteful Overseas Aid Budget which is about £14 billion a year to much. Funding illegal s crossing the channel should also come from this waste of money.

I'm an ex British soldier married to a Russian woman and living in Krasnagorsk, Moscow. Here they've just delivered two heaps of scrap. 1 Leopard tank and 1 Abrams tank which will be placed in Victory Park. After that I think they'll be displaying them outside the respective Embassies. Should be a good laugh to have a look at . NATO was defeated by Russia without firing one single round .

best you give that money to people living under bridges in England

Our taxes on this bs

Do the Tories actually think this is a vote winner?

It might even help the increasingly desperate Times Radio as well. It’s not going to be much help to desperate people in the UK though.

no one speaks for the taxpayers

As someone who works 60+ hours a week and gives 1/3 of my wages to government, where was my vote on this?

its an "investement" in the uk arms industry and the chance to win a contract from Blackrock.... we're ok though, we got the Captain Mainwaring to protect us ..

Using our hard-earned money again, and we don't get looked after. I am all for helping people, but help your own people first (IT'S OUR MONEY)

There goes my tax 😡

What about people battling for a bed in hospitals around this country, my friend was 30 hours on a trolley in a corridor that was being used as a ward.

Why are we helping 500 million our country is crumbling this is disgusting

£500M wasted pounds...

NOT OUR WAR!!!

Why send ukraine 500million in a war that doesn't involve us could be used to help hospitals and Dr's in this country

500 million ?, wr have our own problems at home.I did not agree as a tax payer to give them money or to get involved . Our m p,s should be tried as thre traitors they are.!

Pointless gesture which won't change the outcome but will lead to more dead and wounded.

500 million?! Where did that come from?

What about the Desperate British people that need medical aid?

I'd rather send it all to Russia.

Wait, i thought Ukraine was winning and Russia was fighting with shovels? Oh, you mean you lied?

Vote Reform UK

One big massive scam

people are starving here in the UK with the cost of living but hey let’s send 500 million to Ukraine 😂

There has been similar reluctance to spend money on foreign conflicts, only to find oneself in a difficult situation requiring assistance from American allies. Ignoring the issue will not safeguard against the aggressive empire attempting to consume Europe. The UK could be one of the final parts to be consumed, as in the past. The term "Great Britain" is often used, but some argue that Britain's prominence has diminished, and it is now a small island nation with a legacy from the past. The tradition of monarchy persists, with significant funds allocated to it annually by the taxpayers. Hundreds of millions a year so they can play King and Court. Might want to get your priorities in line.

That ‘£500M’ aid package will get blown up in one go with Russia’s FAB-3000.

sure most people in UK would rather have seen the £500 m being spent on stopping all those illegals who arrive there by boat etc. and then cost ever more from then on while some of the citizens live on the streets

This should have been done 3 months ago.

This is going to go on for years

I wonder if folks realise that by supporting Ukraine we're looking after our future. If Ukraine isn't supported, under a dictatorship, which the Tories would like,you wouldn't have any health service or care for citizens.

We need the money to spend on our nhs not on a usa proxy war we dont agree with this at all

Send him there!!

Money spent on defence is money well spent.

Why don’t we all agree to go back to swords shields and arrows, why spend so much money to get done what could be done cheaper?

all for the fact that peace could have been had in Turkey in 2022 ..what would have been so bad about that?

ONE BIG MASSIVE SC AM

There is no way it can help! It can only prolong the agony of the poor ukranians! Uk should focus its money and effords at home! Where is really needed!

Breaking news!!! Russia's problems = 1% of Ukraine's. Who'd have thought from this well balanced channel 😂

60b USA will. Maybe close Ukraine night clubs and use there own money?

500 million compared to 61 billion pretty pathetic

More money for Zelensky to line his pockets with.

But... it won't help them win... inly opinion is negotiations

It’s disgusting that the mi ey is going abroad and not the UK. Help our own first as the UK is a dumping ground right now.

The biggest game changing is going to be cooperated R&D between Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic states. These lands are the most motivated to ensure Russia stays in it's box. (pretty sure though we are all now aiming for the disintegration of the Russian federation). NATO should fund R&D/Production in these countries.

UK should be following Macron's stance and realising putin will have to be stopped now, not allowing him opportunity to rebuild his forces.

British stay out of war and look after yourself, not wasting money like this its totally mad and waste.

You all cant still be falling for this propaganda ffs, its embarrassing.

Thank you UK! Slava Ukraine!

Thank you.

Decent compassionate😂😂😂remember what you did during war in south africa?. The war is over, get it?. 550 K ukr dead. The west, nato and america lost the war in ukr. Is patriot best you can do?. After the saudi oil fields attacks, patriot achieved nothing. After that, mike pompeio said they know patriot is useless, but dont stop buying it😂😂😂

Let’s see the end of this year. There will be another cash call.

Why? are we "gifting" aid to Ukraine, when the USA is doing it as a loan basis? ....why?

Given the success of Russia, I think UK should send shovels to Ukraine so they are on equal footing.

Never take $61 billion to a shovel fight.

Sunak must have a stake in arms manufacturers

Slava Ukraini! Heroiam slava!

This had been delayed.....

wasn’t he supposed to have died about a year ago from the ‘caNcER’ you told everyone he had ? 😂

I recently got a tax bill from HMRC, they can cram it. I can spend my own money in a better way.

We're in a cost of living crisis and fpll even when working their backsides off are struggling to make ends meet. But the government still finds millions of pounds to fund a war in another country. How about keeping our noses out, looking after our country first. Thst money cokld be better spent on thr NHS and helping poorer folk to get through the finanacial crisis and have a bloody life. Olus, out llr military needs money spent on it. Look after out country first. We're becoming weak as a country and folm know it and that's why theybwant to flock here to abuse our services.

Lots of UK & US taxpayers money were displayed as trophies in Russian exhibition centres. This money will help Russian to open new centres. 😂😂

Ukraine is not afraid of Russia why are we

Please Forgive Me, I'm not in the Army, unfortunately. I keep hearing of the shortages, I am also continuously seeing inaccurate Artillery supplied, Peppering Every single field with holes, (one could almost jump from one Artillery creater to the other) while video footage shows the INTENDED target or targets, undamaged, either for many many attempts or for the entire barrage. The Trenches, being surround by the incoming enemy must be the most terrifying place on Earth, from the videos shown, more often than not, the only comfort shown, is to keep you head facing downwards, below the surface, arms holding rifle high & spray the tree tops with bullets, then empty all the other magazines handed to you. The trees are audibly heard, to be hit numerous times. I don't know how the stocks of ammunition, have lasted as long as it they have. Please could you help me understand this.... Kind regards...

It would be intresting to campare the aid to Ukraina per capita in the givning country I guess that some smaller countries have given more per capita then th US

Putin is strong.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Let's hope Russia don't see this as a declaration of war

It won't make any difference for Russia

Lol little britain thinks its still a world power or something, then this help sum 🤣 enough for a day or two, really shows how little it's become indeed.

DON'T WORRY WORLD NO.1 ARMY & COMMANDO.

Not are war

Let's hope 🙏 Ukraine 🇺🇦 free from the terrorist state russia

It won’t.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 500 mil, really? 😅😅😅

Should have been done long ago, but at least it's done!

Again a united Europe is stronger a d the UK needs them as much as they need 7us😊

Paraphrasing Winston Churchill - You can always trust the Americans to do the right thing...only when they've exhausted every other avenue.

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦

500 milliom come from???

forget tanks, drones' drones and more drones , 155 mm artillery shells. and f16 aircrafts....