Burnham will ask Trump for Patriot interceptors in New York as Britain taps Ukraine's battlefield data
After Kyiv, Andy Burnham said he would go to New York in September to seek a share of Patriot stocks before winter. London and Kyiv signed a Monday deal to train models on Avengers lab data for British sites.
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Burnham says he will go to New York in September to ask Trump for Patriot stocks
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham said in an interview in Kyiv on Monday evening that he and other European leaders plan to travel to the United States next month for the UN General Assembly, to press for Ukraine to be given access to some American Patriot stocks before winter. He said he was looking forward to going to New York in September, adding that the details were not fully confirmed. The trip came up on Burnham's first foreign visit since becoming prime minister, after he chaired a meeting of Ukraine's allies for the first time and held a bilateral meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky.[1]
Zelensky asked for Patriot stocks to be replenished before winter, and Burnham called the shortage fixable
Zelensky has appealed repeatedly to Europe and the United States to replenish interceptor stocks before winter, when Russia is expected to step up strikes on energy infrastructure. Patriot interceptors are described as the most potent weapon available against Russian cruise and ballistic missiles. Burnham said he left Kyiv in an optimistic mood and that the shortage of interceptors can be fixed.[1]
London opens British sites to models trained on Ukraine's Avengers lab data
Under a deal signed between London and Kyiv on Monday, models trained on data from Ukraine's Avengers AI lab will be used to detect threats to British defence sites, railways and energy plants. Private companies approved by the Ministry of Defence will also be able to reach the data through a secure access path, the first arrangement of its kind in Britain. The pilot will run at a British defence site and will try to tell different kinds of movement apart using AI-optimised sensors placed in buried fibre-optic cables. Ministry of Defence sources said the scope covers protesters as well as hostile states. Pilot projects have been approved with three British firms: Sintela, Mind Foundry and Skyral. Sintela, a Bristol-based company working on fibre-optic sensors, recently signed a 35 million dollar deal with the Trump administration for surveillance on the US-Mexico border, a sum also reported as 26 million pounds. The four-year cache of Ukrainian military data includes operational drone datasets, strike mission footage and flight profiles.[2]
