South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has pledged to increase his country’s humanitarian and non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine after a summit with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv.

South Korea, which is the world’s ninth-largest arms exporter, has a longstanding policy to not supply lethal weapons to active conflict zones.

But at a press briefing after the two leaders had met he said Seoul would “expand the scale of supplies from last year, when we provided materials such as helmets and bullet-proof vests”.

Yoon added that humanitarian aid would be increased to $150m in 2023, from $100m last year.

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