Britain says Ukraine can use donated weapons inside Russia

August 20, 2024

The Economic Times

British weapons can be used by Ukrainian forces in operations on Russian territory, Britain’s Ministry of Defence said on Thursday, but restrictions on the use of long-range Storm Shadow missiles remain. In the last two weeks, Ukraine has carried out the biggest foreign attack on sovereign Russian territory since World War Two, which one Ukrainian official has said is designed to create a buffer zone to protect its population against attack.

Britain’s then foreign minister David Cameron said in May that Ukraine had a right to use weapons provided by London to strike targets inside Russia, but the government had not commented before on Ukraine’s use of the donated weapons by ground forces on Russian territory.

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