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Keir Starmer signaled Ukraine can use Britain’s Storm Shadow missiles to strike military targets inside Russia, confirming he would continue the previous UK government’s policy on the use of its long-range weapons in the Russia-Ukraine war.https://t.co/W5E1heawsa
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The missiles must “obviously to be used in accordance with international humanitarian law as you would expect,” the premier added, stating his position that Storm Shadows were to be used “for defensive purposes.”
“But it is for Ukraine to decide how to deploy it for those defensive purposes,” he said. Storm Shadows are precision-guided cruise missiles with a firing range in excess of 250 kilometers (155 miles).
“Keir Starmer has given President Zelenskiy a shot in the arm,” Jamie Shea, a former NATO official and now associate fellow at Chatham House, told Bloomberg Radio on Wednesday. The Ukrainians “have to be able to strike back against those significant Russian military targets — but obviously not Russian civilian targets. I think Keir Starmer and other NATO leaders will draw a red line on that, the strikes have to be against the genuine military targets.”
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I'm jaded, this feels open to interpretation to me, what is "defensive purposes" exactly? Can they lob a Storm Shadow at jets just sitting in a runway doing nothing? I'll say what I said last time, I'll believe them when I see a Storm Shadow missile actually in Russia and/or fragments of one, I've yet to see that, maybe Storm Shadow is better suited for buildings and large ships? Maybe they don't want to use one Storm Shadow for one jet? I don't know, but I've been burnt too many times by the West's careful language.
