LONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Liz Truss will pledge at a UN summit to meet or exceed the 2.3 billion pounds ($2.6 billion) of military aid spent on Ukraine in 2002 in the next year, doubling down on her support for Kyiv after Russia's invasion.
Truss, on her first international visit as prime minister, will call on other leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York to help end Russia's energy stranglehold on Europe, saying it has allowed too many lives to be "manipulated".
"My message to the people of Ukraine is this: the UK will continue to be right behind you every step of the way.
Your security is our security," she said in a statement before her speech to the summit, which begins on Thursday.
"Too many lives – in Ukraine, in Europe and around the world – are being manipulated by a dependence on Russian energy," she added.