India, June 4 -- The United Kingdom is making a tenfold increase in production and procurement of drones to deliver to Ukraine this year.

The UK is ramping up its support for Ukraine with an ambitious new target of 100,000 drones for the current financial year.

With more than 10,000 drones delivered to Ukraine last year, tens of thousands more have already been delivered, the UK Ministry of Defense said in a statement. The record 350 million pound investment in drones for Ukraine is part of the UK's 4.5 billion pound military support this year.

UK Defense Secretary John Healey is set to make an announcement in this regard at a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group he convened with his German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, in Brusse...