It is also ready to use long-range missiles against it, according to press reports citing a source from the British cabinet.
Conservative shadow defense minister James Cartledge has already said in an early morning interview that he hopes the US decision will push the British government to do the same.
It is worth noting that the British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during his visit to the USA, before the American elections, at the beginning of September, had raised the issue with President Biden, who, however, had then refused to give his consent.
A few days later former Prime Minister Boris Johnson and five former UK Defense Secretaries including Grant Shapps and Ben Walsh had asked the British Prime Minister to allow Kiev to use British ballistic missiles despite John Biden’s objections at the time.
In his statements today, Sir Keir Starmer, on his way to the G20 summit in Brazil, on the one hand emphasized that he has no intention of talking to Putin as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz did a few days ago, and on the other hand he emphasized that “we must redouble our efforts to strengthen our support for Ukraine.”
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