Luke Harding
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Today in Focus · Russia threatens UK over supplying drones to Ukraine — The Latest · 18 Aug 2026
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dramatic, they sort of fizz upwards with a burst of orange, uh, and then motor with with propellers, they're like old fashioned biplanes towards targets um in in in Russia.
And I think what's what's been interesting is that progressively Ukraine has degraded Russian air defenses, which means that more and more of these drones are getting through.
Well, I I think Ukraine would say it is a military target.
You can buy all sorts of um army stuff there, from night vision goggles to flak jackets to soldiers' boots.
And like m much of the war, it's dual use, things that could be used for civilian purposes, but also are being used and bought by ordinary soldiers who sign contracts with the Russian military and then go to to Ukraine to kill Ukrainians.
So so Volodymyr's.
Has said that this is legitimate, that these are what he calls kinetic sanctions.
And meanwhile, we we mustn't forget that Russia is striking Ukraine every night.
It killed 10 people this morning in the northeastern Kharkiv region, and it's hitting them with jerk drones, with ballistic missiles, some of them from North Korea, by the way.
And uh with
Shells, artillery, and so on.
So there's a kind of remorseless aerial war that has migrated from the land, which is what we saw at the beginning of Vladimir Putin's full scale invasion in twenty twenty two, with tanks streaming towards Kiev.
Uh and and now it's a war of the sky.
The source of this story is the Sunday Times, which published a long article uh setting out, well, quoting sources and setting out what Britain is doing.
It appears to be there are there are two drones involved, uh one of them made in Wiltshire by a subsidiary of BAE Systems, which is a kind of short-range drone called the Nian, about three meters long, which has been
Blitzing targets just over the border in in Russian cities like Belgorod.
And a second drone, which goes further as far as almost 600 miles, launched by a catapult.
We we don't know who makes this, um, it's not public.
But this is the one that's been hitting various Russian oil refineries in places like Yaroslavl, just outside Moscow in the Moscow region, and further south.
And uh while I think it's
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