Northern Ireland's First Minister has said she is "incredulous" at a large order for a Belfast company to supply missiles for Ukraine.

An order for the Thales missile factory to supply 5,000 air defence missiles to Ukraine is “hugely significant” for the Belfast workforce, DUP leader Gavin Robinson has said. Mr Robinson also described the heated Oval Office confrontation between US president Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy as “appalling” and “destructive”.

The Ukrainian government is to buy at least £1.16 billion-worth of missiles from Thales, which has a factory in Castlereagh Industrial Estate, east Belfast, it was revealed on Sunday.