Dan Sabbagh – The Guardian June 6, 2022
Britain is to supply long-range rocket artillery to Ukraine, despite a threat on Sunday from Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, to bomb fresh targets if similar weapons from the US were delivered to Kyiv.
The UK will send a handful of tracked M270 multiple launch rocket systems (pictured above), which can hit targets up to 50 miles away, in the hope they can disrupt the concentrated Russian artillery that has been pounding cities in eastern Ukraine.
Ben Wallace, the UK defence secretary, argued the decision to ship the rocket launchers was justified because “as Russia’s tactics change, so must our support to Ukraine”. The move risks further provoking an already irritated Kremlin.
Before the British announcement, Putin told Rossiya state television that Russia would retaliate further if the US went through with the delivery of Himars rocket artillery that the White House promised last week.
“We will strike at those targets which we have not yet been hitting,” said the Russian leader, who has been closely involved with operational military decisions throughout the three months-plus of the war. He did not specify what those targets were.
In the small hours of Sunday morning, Russian cruise missiles struck a railway depot in the eastern Dniprovsky suburb of Kyiv. Ukraine said the strike hit a rail car repair works; Moscow said it had destroyed tanks sent by eastern European countries to Ukraine.
It was the first time anywhere in the capital has been hit for over five weeks. One person was hospitalised, and a plume of smoke rose and was visible from high points in the capital.
Five cruise missiles were launched from Tu-95 bombers, one of which was intercepted, Ukraine’s air force said, in an attack that represented a change of approach on the part of Russian forces. Kyiv was last hit on 28 April.
Russia’s ministry of defence claimed it was targeting an arsenal of T-72 tanks that had been delivered from eastern European countries, suggesting it now wants to target the supply of western arms. But Ukrainian officials said the statement was false.
Oleksandr Kamyshin, the chairman of the board of Ukrainian Railways, said: “There are no such tanks at the plant, as well as no military equipment. There are only cars that we repair. These carriages we need for export – these are, in particular, grain carriages.”
The UK, in conjunction with the US and other western nations, began the war by promising only to supply “defensive weaponry” to help Ukraine repel the Russian invasion. But as Russia has made gains in the east and the south of the country, western countries have gradually sent more lethal arms.
London said it had been cooperating closely with Washington. The British announcement comes a few days after the US said it would send four similar truck-mounted Himars systems. The US and UK systems are intended to be complementary. The ranges of both are far greater than any land weapons Ukraine currently has.
Like the US, the UK has sought assurances from Kyiv that the M270s would not be used to strike targets within Russia. A British defence source said the weapons will be used “to defend Ukraine, in Ukraine”. They added: “We have confidence that the weapons will be used appropriately.”
Rothschild has ordered this
support for the Ukrainian jewboys at any cost
and our lap dog politicians just say yes ok
Electricity prices today jumped 56%
food is going up by the week
what about our own people boris?
Send them in british ships or through poland, it’s all the same. Or are we supposed to believe that the jewkraine is “standing alone” against big bad russia? More “war crimes” have been committed by the jewkraine dictators than in any other war since ww2, all backed by the jewk and the jewsa. Even amongst the so called independant media they make out that the war in the jewkraine is some kind of isolated thing that will stop after one side or the other “wins”.
It’s all a bit ‘180’ this Goading. (tanks, Missiles, training & supplies)
Our government did the same in 1936 onwards, Leaving the Krauts little option but to invade Poland 1st, (Obviously the real threat coming from Stalin & the East.) Really. Did Hitler & Germany have an option ?
The flip,
It seems the Federation now reject leftist ideals, & have subsequently become the ‘trendy’ enemy. Who the Penny Chew controlled governments seem hell bent on destroying.
I appreciate counter arguments that the leaders are “all the same, working to a script”. And that to me seems to be true too.
so.
As yet we haven’t heard any confirmation. A Nation, or a leader of such, openly condemning this insanity that is destroying anything decent & good in this world, And laying out a workable alternative option to this hideous claimed pandemic, Orchestrated wars, Fuel & food restrictions, & an obliterated ‘cash’ option of trading.
without forgetting an end to usury linked in with compound interest.
If it’s true, 194 countries are willing participants with the WHO/UN is signing the agreement of policy WORLD WIDE for the next pandemic,
Well it’s there, nailed on,
There’s no one on ‘our’ side.
It’s all a pantomime.
When Russia inevitably bombs Britain our politicians will have invited it. There will nothing “first strike” about it.
UK has a definite DEATH WISH.
Here’s hoping Vlad can fulfl that “Drea,” and has a Sarmat Missile to spare…
doing the world a favor by putting that Island Of Iniquity out of its misery ONCE & FOR ALL!
Time for the IRA to mysteriously acquire some serious weaponry.
> As yet we haven’t heard any confirmation. A Nation, or a leader of such, openly condemning this insanity
That’s like asking a rapist to give a speech on keeping your children safe.
It’s like asking a good, honest man, with Morals, to do the right thing.
The Pantomime moniker sticks. As no man with those qualities seems to exist.
or, as yet has come forward.
A rapist giving a speech on keeping kids safe, Is surely deception, Like ALL present day politicians seem to do. (are doing) saying one thing, & doing the opposite .
Like Putin, Seemingly pro-white-Christian, anit LGBXYZ but just as staunch in vax-stabs & trading Oil to his enemy through back door contracts.
Like Biden(or any ‘western’ leader) Vocal on stopping Russia protecting their own border, Yet their own border is an open sewer.
That’s what it’s like.
Hmmm.. How long was it for a Russian Hypersonic Missile to vaporise London ??
2 minutes or 3 minutes ??
Detonate one nuke off the coast & watch a massive wave wash over London & drag a million “migrants” out to sea…a win-win..
GREAT MOSCOW CALIPH HE UP TREE NO GET DOWN.