Ukraine’s relationship with the UK has “got worse” since the Labour government took power in July, officials in Kyiv have said, voicing frustration over Britain’s failure to supply additional long-range missiles.
The UK prime minister is yet to visit Ukraine four months after taking office and a frustrated Kyiv has said that a trip would be worthless unless Keir Starmer committed to replenishing stocks of the sought after long-range Storm Shadow system.
“There’s no point in his coming as a tourist,” one senior figure in Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s administration said at a time when Ukraine is acutely concerned about the impact that Donald Trump’s US election victory will have on its war effort.
Ukraine is growing increasingly unhappy with London as Russian troops advance in the East at their fastest rate since 2022, with US officials concluding that the frontlines can no longer be considered static. Ukrainian commanders said they are heavily outgunned.
At the same time, Trump’s election victory on Wednesday has raised concerns that the US could halt or slow military aid to Ukraine, forcing Kyiv to negotiate a humiliating peace with Russia
Ukraine’s principal complaint with the UK is that it has not supplied any additional missiles from its reserves of Storm Shadow, even for use against targets in Crimea and other Ukrainian territories occupied by Russia since 2014.
The official said: “It isn’t happening. Starmer isn’t giving us long-range weapons. The situation is not the same as when Rishi Sunak was prime minister. The relationship has got worse.”
Sunak visited Kyiv in November 2022 within a month of becoming prime minister. Boris Johnson, his predecessor but one, enjoyed a close relationship with Zelenskyy and was considered by Ukraine a critical source of support shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
Starmer has promised Ukraine 3 Billion a year of our tax payers money Zelensky is a multi millionair and has homes all around the world.
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