VOA News | Monday, May 6, 2024 
Moscow threatens UK with strikes if Ukraine hits Russia with British weapons

Moscow threatened Monday to strike at British military targets inside Ukraine and elsewhere if Kyiv’s forces struck Russia with British-supplied long-range missiles — a move British Foreign Secretary David Cameron greenlighted Kyiv to take in self-defense. During a visit in Kyiv last week, Cameron said Kyiv’s forces will be able to use British long-range weapons to strike targets inside Russia. “Just as Russia is striking inside Ukraine, you can quite understand why Ukraine feels the need to make sure it’s defending itself,” Cameron said in an interview with Reuters last week. Cameron also said that London did not put “caveats” on how Ukrainian forces use weapons supplied by Britain. The Russian foreign ministry announced in a statement it had summoned the British Ambassador Nigel Casey in Moscow and warned him that if Ukrainian forces use British-supplied weapons to strike Russia, Moscow could retaliate at “any U.K. military facility and equipment on Ukrainian territory and beyond.” “The ambassador was urged to reflect on the inevitable catastrophic consequences of such hostile steps by London and to immediately refute in the strongest and most unequivocal manner the bellicose provocative statements by the head of the Foreign Office,” the statement added. Russia also announced earlier that it was planning new nuclear weapons drills near Ukraine’s borders, citing “threats” made by Western leaders, including French leader Emmanuel Macron and British officials, and in response to NATO’s expansive military exercises close to the Russian borders…Read more