Ukraine WILL be able to fire UK-made ballistic missiles into Russia, hints Sir Keir Starmer

BRITAIN volition not beryllium cowed by Vladimir Putin’s irresponsible atomic rhetoric, Sir Keir Starmer has said.

The Prime Minister yesterday rebuffed the Kremlin’s scare tactics arsenic helium gave the strongest awesome yet that Kyiv would beryllium allowed to occurrence UK-made ballistic missiles into Russia.

Asked astatine the G20 summit successful Brazil whether Brits should hole for a nuclear war, helium said: “This is irresponsible rhetoric coming from Russia and that is not going to deter our enactment for Ukraine.

As the struggle reached its 1,000th day, Putin yesterday signed a caller doctrine to little the barroom for launching a archetypal onslaught — saying it could beryllium triggered by an onslaught from a non-nuclear authorities backed by a nuclear power.

Almost simultaneously, Ukrainian media reported the archetypal usage of American-made ATACMS missiles connected Russian territory.

Ukraine’s subject did not remark connected the usage of the weapons, but took work for a blaze astatine a weapons depot successful the metropolis of Karachev, Bryansk, 70 miles implicit the border.

The Kremlin claimed Ukraine had fired six ATACMS, stating they caused nary superior damage.

The missiles, which person a scope of 186 miles and are hard to intercept, springiness Kyiv the quality to onslaught deeper into Russia.

They could beryllium utilized astir the Kursk region, wherever Ukrainian ­forces clasp astir 400 quadrate miles of territory and are expecting a Russian counter-offensive.

Asked astir letting Ukraine usage UK-made Storm Shadow missiles, Sir Keir said: “I’ve been doubling down successful my wide connection that we request to guarantee Ukraine has what is needed for arsenic agelong arsenic needed to triumph this warfare against Putin.”

“I americium not going to spell into operational details. You would not expect maine to. The lone victor successful that would beryllium Putin and it would undermine Ukraine.

"The azygous simplest mode to extremity this struggle is for Russia to halt the aggression and to halt it today. We are connected time 1,000 of that aggression.”

Armed Forces Minister Luke ­Pollard confirmed that talks were unrecorded astir unleashing Storm Shadow missiles astatine Russia.

Speaking astatine an Army basal wherever British troops are grooming Ukrainians, helium said: “Putin’s threats are designed to enactment america disconnected from our enactment for Ukraine.

“They’re designed to weaken our resolve, and we are showing beardown resoluteness successful return.”

Asked if Britain would springiness Kyiv a greenish airy to occurrence Storm Shadow missiles astatine Russia, helium said: “It’s a unrecorded concern and for operational information reasons you volition admit wherefore I can’t comment.

“We’ll proceed to supply the instrumentality they need.”