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LONDON (AP) \u2014 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/span> will meet with British Prime Minister Andy Burnham<\/span> at a naval base in England on Monday, a visit Burnham said is intended to signal the U.K.’s \u201cunwavering\u201d support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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Zelenskyy\u2019s trip is the first by a foreign leader since Burnham took office a week ago. His predecessor, Keir Starmer<\/span>, was in Kyiv less than two weeks ago in his last overseas trip before leaving office.<\/p>\n

Burnham will be the fifth British prime minister to deal with the Ukrainian president since Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine<\/span> in 2022. <\/p>\n

\u201cRussia should be in no doubt of our resolve, and we will not back down until we achieve long lasting and just peace for Ukraine,\u201d said Burnham, who has spent the past nine years as mayor of Greater Manchester and has little foreign policy experience. <\/p>\n

The U.K. trip comes a day before Zelenskyy is expected to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington.<\/p>\n

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During the visit to Portsmouth on England\u2019s south coast, Zelenskyy and Burnham will meet more than 200 Ukrainian military personnel who have spent the past three weeks in Britain. They have been taking part in an exercise aimed at strengthening war-fighting capabilities and countermine measures in the Black Sea, the U.K. government said.<\/p>\n

The U.K. will give Ukraine the intellectual property behind its new \u201cStone Cloak\u201d electronic warfare system, which is capable of jamming Russian air defenses to stop drones from being detected, Burnham\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has expanded its campaign of deep strikes with increasingly frequent drone attacks inside Russia that have targeted oil facilities, military factories and, most recently, logistical centers, bringing war home to millions of Russians and raising pressure on President Vladimir Putin<\/span>. <\/p>\n

The raids have shattered Putin\u2019s narrative of the conflict as something that doesn\u2019t affect the lives of ordinary people in his country. But he has remained undeterred and Russia has ramped up its aerial campaign, regularly bombarding Ukraine with missiles and drones. <\/p>\n

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Russia and Ukraine exchange more drone attacks<\/h2>\n

Russia again attacked Ukraine overnight with 147 long-range strike drones, according to the Ukrainian air force, which said 123 drones were intercepted or jammed.<\/p>\n

In Zaporizhzhia, one person was killed and two injured in a series of attacks at the city that damaged a high-rise residential buildings and several private residences overnight, according to regional administration head Ivan Fedorov.<\/p>\n

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In the Nikopol district of the Dnipropetrovsk region, Russian strikes damaged a kindergarten, residential buildings and infrastructure injuring a woman and a 6-years old boy, according to administration head Oleksandr Hanzha.<\/p>\n

In the eastern Kharkiv region, a regional council member said Russian forces have destroyed every gas station along the highway between Kharkiv and Poltava, a distance of about 150 kilometers (93 miles). Oleksandr Skoryk said the situation is becoming more critical by the day, but the region is not facing a fuel or food crisis.<\/p>\n

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