The missiles will be produced at Thales in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where the order will create 200 jobs and support 700 existing ones.

First Minister Michelle O'Neill has said she is "incredulous" at a UK government deal for a Belfast factory to supply air defence missiles to Ukraine. The Sinn Féin vice-president said that "rather than buying weapons of war, I would rather see the money invested in public services".

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday announced a new 1.6 billion pound ($2 billion) deal which would allow Ukraine to purchase 5,000 air-defence missiles using export finance. (Reporting by Andrew MacAskill and Kate Holton, writing by William James; Editing by Conor Humphries)