The Kremlin said Monday that the Britain was preventing peace in Ukraine by giving Kyiv information needed to produce SCALP long-range missiles, and threatened to destroy plants manufacturing them.
The warning came as British Prime Minister Andy Burnham pledged to keep backing Ukraine militarily during a visit to Kyiv.
Burnham visited Kyiv on Monday for Ukraine’s Independence Day commemorations and vowed to maintain Britain’s military backing for the government. The British government has said it would authorise defence firm MBDA to release information on UK components used in the Franco-British missile, so that Kyiv could produce them domestically.
“Our armed forces are carrying out work accordingly, gathering the relevant intelligence to identify the production sites of such missiles and other military equipment, and taking measures to destroy these facilities,” Peskov said. “Despite Russia’s outrageous threats to my country, we will continue our support for Ukraine’s defence,” Burnham said in a speech given ahead of a meeting of Ukraine’s international backers.
