Britain Responds to Russian Threat Over Ukraine Drone Support

Beyond the supply of drones, the British government has also provided long-range Storm Shadow missiles during the conflict. These stockpiles were reportedly replenished in November, according to Bloomberg.

Ukraine’s Armed Forces have used such missiles for strikes within both Russia and Russian-occupied areas of eastern Ukraine in recent months. 

Following a Ukrainian strike on Russia’s Bryansk region with the use of Storm Shadow missiles in March, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the U.K. was complicit in the attacks and that there was blood “on the hands of the British military.”

Russian authorities said that the latest round of overnight strikes saw over 600 drones  launched toward Moscow between Monday evening and early Tuesday, while the city’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that air defenses took down 180.

In Ukraine, 10 people were killed Tuesday morning following a Russian strike on a “busy intersection” in Pechenihy, Kharkiv, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “We will definitely respond to this Russian strike,” said Zelenskyy, calling on allies to “complement our just kinetic responses with their own actions to put pressure on Russia and support Ukraine.”