UK sending long-range Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine, says defence minister
by Dan Sabbagh and Luke Harding in Mykolaiv from World news | The Guardian on (#6BNRJ)
Britain donating arms capable of striking targets in occupied Crimea as Kyiv prepares counteroffensive against Russia
Britain has become the first western country to provide Ukraine with the long-range Storm Shadow cruise missiles that Kyiv wants to boost its chances in a much-anticipated counteroffensive, prompting a threat from the Kremlin of a military response.
Hours after Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said he needed more western weapons to be confident of a victory this summer, Ben Wallace, the UK defence secretary, told MPs that the missiles - which cost more than 2m each - were now going in, or are in the country itself".
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