UK-Ukraine drone partnership risks Putin’s wrath but will boost long-term security

When the UK allowed Ukraine to use British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles against targets inside Russia in late 2024, Moscow predictably accused London of escalating the war and threatened retaliation. Russia’s latest warnings over Kyiv’s use of British-made drones that “the deeper its involvement in the conflict… the higher the price it will pay” may therefore sound familiar. But there is an important difference: scale. With a range of 250km, Storm Shadow has given Ukraine an extremely…