Burnham to visit Ukraine with promise of boost for Kyiv’s long-range missiles
Britain will let MBDA release classified component data for the SCALP missile, a step meant to help Ukraine build long-range weapons at home.
- On Monday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham visited Kyiv to announce that Britain will allow European defence firm MBDA to declassify UK component data for the SCALP missile, enabling Ukraine to establish local assembly lines for deep-strike weapons.
- Marking Ukraine's 35th Independence Day, Burnham arrived to chair his first meeting of the Coalition of the Willing, a diplomatic framework established by his predecessor Sir Keir Starmer to coordinate Western support.
- The missiles use shared British and French technology, and Ukraine and France plan to produce the "deep precision strike" weapons domestically, reducing reliance on external supply chains and boosting Ukrainian self-sufficiency.
- Russia recently warned of "consequences" over reported British drone use, and Moscow's ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin, departed his London post in recent weeks, raising tensions over potential diplomatic downgrade.
- Stating "Ukraine's security is our security," Burnham pledged that British support "will not waver," building on momentum from President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's visit to Britain in late July for early engagement.
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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who is visiting Kiev this Monday, has agreed to provide Ukraine with plans to manufacture long-range missiles, as advanced by British media. During his first trip to Ukraine, Burnham hopes to announce that he will allow the European defence company MBDA to declassify information about the British components of the Storm missile
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