{"id":30042,"date":"2026-08-18T15:15:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/30042\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:15:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T15:15:30","slug":"we-wont-be-bullied-britain-responds-to-russian-threat-over-ukraine-drone-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/30042\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We Won\u2019t Be Bullied\u2019: Britain Responds to Russian Threat Over Ukraine Drone Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Beyond the supply of drones, the British government has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/speeches\/defence-secretary-oral-statement-on-war-in-ukraine\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">provided<\/a> long-range <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbda-systems.com\/products\/deep-strike\/storm-shadow-scalp\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Storm Shadow<\/a> missiles during the conflict. These stockpiles were reportedly replenished in November, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-11-03\/uk-sends-ukraine-more-storm-shadow-missiles-to-strike-in-russia?srnd=homepage-europe\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bloomberg.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Ukraine\u2019s Armed Forces have used such missiles for strikes within both <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/GeneralStaffZSU\/39224\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">Russia<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GeneralStaff.ua\/posts\/pfbid02EWbD1rVmzqqHkaBbLabDuWvn84GeJSBmhYMrd85xQnGpBwrvQT35gbsgkkz74YFQl\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Russian-occupied areas<\/a> of eastern Ukraine in recent months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Following a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/GeneralStaffZSU\/35923\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ukrainian strike<\/a> on Russia\u2019s Bryansk region with the use of Storm Shadow missiles in March, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that the U.K. was complicit in the attacks and that there was blood \u201con the hands of the British military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Russian authorities said that the latest round of overnight strikes saw over 600 drones\u00a0 launched toward Moscow between Monday evening and early Tuesday, while the city\u2019s mayor Sergei Sobyanin <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/mos_sobyanin\/21261\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> that air defenses took down 180.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">In Ukraine, 10 people were killed Tuesday morning following a Russian strike on a \u201cbusy intersection\u201d in Pechenihy, Kharkiv, according to President <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ZelenskyyUa\/status\/2089623389598032069\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow\">Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a>. \u201cWe will definitely respond to this Russian strike,\u201d said Zelenskyy, calling on allies to \u201ccomplement our just kinetic responses with their own actions to put pressure on Russia and support Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beyond the supply of drones, the British government has also provided long-range Storm Shadow missiles during the conflict.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10836,25,473,26],"class_list":["post-30042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-news-desk","tag-russia","tag-uk","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ukraine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}