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On February 24, 2022 Russia launched a special military operation in Ukraine, aiming to liberate the Donbass region where the people's republics of Donetsk and Lugansk had been living under regular attacks from Kiev's forces.

UK Confirms Sending Storm Shadow Cruise Missiles to Ukraine

Storm Shadow missile - Sputnik International, 1920, 11.05.2023
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has verified that Britain will transfer its Storm Shadow Long-Range Missiles to Kiev, calling it London’s “calibrated and proportionate response” to the crisis.
he top defense official informed the British parliament about the arms transfer to Ukraine and tried to downplay the significance of this move, claiming that Russia has far more capable weaponry.
Earlier in the day, American media reported that the UK had sent its Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles to Ukraine after receiving guarantees from the Zelensky regime that they would not be used against targets inside Russia.
Another American news outlet claimed that Kiev, for a while now, had been begging for long-range missiles, but the Biden administration declined to provide such advanced arms.
Ukrainian servicemen fire at Russian positions from a US-supplied M777 howitzer in Kharkov region, on Thursday, July 14, 2022.  - Sputnik International, 1920, 10.05.2023
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Russian officials castigated this move and pledged to deliver an adequate response.

"[We are] very negative [about such deliveries]. This will require an adequate response from our military, who, naturally, from a military point of view, will make appropriate decisions," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

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