He added: “We will back Ukraine with what is needed for as long as it’s needed.”
‘Making our own contribution’
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has long demanded that Western allies loosen their restrictions on the long-range missiles. Downing Street has sought to play down expectations that they alone could win the war.
Starmer on Thursday told Conservative MP John Whittingdale, who congratulated him on “the decision to allow Ukraine to strike against targets in Russia,” that “we are obviously making our own contribution” to helping Ukraine’s military industrial sector develop its own technology. “I won’t go into the details … here,” Starmer added.
The U.K. plans to release defense intelligence on Thursday that “will reveal the front line is now less stable than at any time” since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Defence Secretary John Healey told a Commons committee.
Healey again refused to confirm widespread reports that Storm Shadow missiles were used on Russian territory. He told MPs: “I won’t be drawn on the operational details of the conflict. It risks both operational security and, in the end, the only one that benefits from such a public debate is President Putin.”
