Ukraine has “relatively few” long-range Storm Shadow missiles left in service after the strikes on Crimea, the British newspaper The Telegraph reported, citing military sources.
“Ukraine has relatively few Storm Shadow missiles left after using them in large numbers to fight Russia in Crimea,” the Telegraph wrote, without specifying the country of origin of its sources.
Victoria Spartz, a Ukrainian-born congresswoman representing the US Republican Party, told the newspaper that lifting the ban on Western long-range weapons strikes by the Ukrainian armed forces deep into Russian territory could provoke a response from Moscow, in which case the US would have to send “reinforcements” to Ukraine. The Telegraph noted that the US “reinforcements” would have to consist of even more arms supplies to Kiev, rather than its own troops.
According to the newspaper, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will discuss the use of Storm Shadow for strikes against Russia with Joe Biden at a meeting on 13 September.
We shall remind you that earlier the French newspaper Le Monde reported that the uncertainty of Western politicians regarding strikes with long-range weapons deep into Russian territory was due to the mistakes of the Ukrainian army at the front. The newspaper said that the attack on Kursk Region “took Ukraine’s partners by surprise”, who “now demand that Kiev clarify its strategy” on the battlefield.
