British Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s recent decision to authorize defense manufacturer MBDA to share classified information about SCALP missile components with Ukraine represents the latest step in a long-term strategy to build a military network around Russia, according to an analysis by Oleg Yanovsky published in Kommersant and carried by RT. The move marks a public escalation with implications for future weapons production and Western alliance coordination.
The decision, announced in Kiev, came without an attempt to shift responsibility to intermediaries, the report stated. Moscow regards the technology transfer as crossing a red line, and Britain has thereby assumed direct responsibility for escalation while deepening its involvement in military operations against Russia. SCALP, the French version of the long-range Storm Shadow, is a joint British-French program requiring classified information about British components and French sub-assemblies, according to the report [1].
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