Luke Harding
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Today in Focus · Burnham hands secret missile technology to Ukraine – The Latest · 24 Aug 2026
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And these are pretty powerful missiles with a big payload that can be used to destroy things such as military air bases, uh ballistic missile launch sites, military command points, and so on.
And
Ukraine has been using these really since about twenty twenty three, I think.
Um but they've been in short supply.
Uh the UK hasn't got very many of them.
Uh they're expensive.
And now what what Burnham has announced is that that this sort of blueprint, these sort of secret technology will be handed over to Kiev so Kiev can can build its own
storm shadows.
And I think the other crucial fact is that previously there's been a restriction of about two hundred kilometers and how far they they might fly.
But but actually if Ukraine is making them then they can go further, up to five hundred kilometres.
So th this is significant.
But also we shouldn't get too carried away because Ukraine has to build a factory.
Uh the Kremlin has already said they'll try and destroy it, you know, before it's built.
Right.
So so even though the Ukrainians have sort of proved they're really quick and adept at at manufacturing, at shortening production cycles, I I think no one seriously expects Ukraine will be
using its own storm shadow this year and probably not next year either.
Yeah, I mean relations between Moscow and London are are awful and there have been some for some time.
I mean I think the interesting question now is will the Russians do anything beyond what they're already doing, which is trying to kind of mess up the UK uh in many different areas?
We get pretty regular threats of nuclear annihil annihilation made by Russian state TV, but I I I don't expect nuclear missile.
But but I I I do think there may be
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