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Big guns, not small arms, could help ukraine turn the tide. >> if i can protect myself as a soldier with this weapon, i can protect my comrades, but unfortunately, i can't clear my country from invaders using only this rifle so we need more artillery. we need to have a rocket system, and serious weapon, because it's a modern war. >> reporter: u.s. and its allies delivered advanced weapon systems to ukraine, and more are on the way. but the army here is losing men at an alarming rate, more than 100 killed in action every day according to ukrainian officials. we need a basic minimum to avoid mor...

On this evening's vote of confidence in borisjohnson online at bbc.co.uk/news. martine, thank you. the uk has announced it is sending multiple—launch rocket systems to ukraine. the defence secretary, ben wallace, said the long—range missiles will help ukraine defend itself against russia. it comes after the us announced it was also supplying a rocket system, in a move which drew an angry response from moscow. 0ur defence correspondent jonathan beale reports. ukraine's president zelensky visited his forces, now fighting a brutal costly war in the east, this weekend. sheltered in a building ...

Something wrong. they can defend their territory, but if they cross that line align as been crossed. from the nato and american perspective, the ideas that if you use our weapons to attack russia, it justifies russia escalating the war beyond ukraine's borders, perhaps into nato. perspective this for me. >> yeah, i think that is frankly a flawed assumption that somehow a rocket system that we provide, versus one that the ukrainians had in their own inventory is gonna be parson anything and kind of way. and that somehow that is what's approaches the major taboo of a russian country fantasia wit...

Trying to open up the black sea, and now you've got this rocket system because russia has been using long distance rockets to great effect there. i mean, do any of these, the collection of these change the battlefield in your view? >> i think what's happening with the artillery rocket system, these are rockets and the ability to put missiles, which means they've got some precision to them. but that gives ukrainians great reach and that's the way the ukrainians have achieved success is when they can get into the russian rear and start to set the conditions for how the immediate engagement is go...

From the west. maria avdeeva is research director at the european expert association in ukraine. shejoins us now from 0desa. good to see you, maria. what difference to think believe these long—range weapons will make to the war? these long-range weapons will make to the war?— make to the war? ukraine needs them most _ make to the war? ukraine needs them most now— make to the war? ukraine needs them most now because - make to the war? ukraine needs them most now because to - make to the war? ukraine needs l them most now because to defend donbas on the first hand, and on the other hand, t...