Well Done Mr Sunak …

[ichkeria]

Hope CNN are right.

How long now?

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/05/11/politics/uk-storm-shadow-cruise-missiles-ukraine/index.html

[retrocop]

Great News for the gallant Ukranians. Use them well!
I wish the media would stop making it a competition between the UK and USA. It would be of benefit to all if our generosity was not tested all the time and there were no need for this crucial aid.

[Old_Geezer]

I guess he had to get something right. The odds against getting everything wrong must be astronomical.

[Khandro]

'The Royal Air Force has between 700 and 1,000 Storm Shadow missiles. The French Air Force still has about 500 missiles, so there is a lot to share. As always, high-precision weapons are very expensive, each such missile costs $1.71 million in 2022 prices.'

How do you say "Use them wisely" in Ukrainian ?

[Peter Pedant]

It would be of benefit to all if ...... there were no need for this crucial aid.
bit pious
if wd be wonderful if the Russians stopped raping women and boming little children and their hospitals....

but they wont Blanche they wont! ( thx to whatever happend to Baby Jane)

[Peter Pedant]

well the arabic is استخدمها بحكمة
ista-hadam-a bi-hukuma - wiv wisdom they dont do adverbs

Yuke is
використовуйте їх з розумом

but I cannot tell you if tha is accurate ( see Hungarian translators sketch, monty python)

[ichkeria]

Ben Wallace made the announcement in the Commons this day.

Russia promises an “adequate response”
Lol

[retrocop]

I was glad to read today a Russian State TV presenter stating that the isolated Putin does not ,now, have enough Novichok to kill off all his critics and dissenters.
He would have had a darn site more dissenters if the Muscovites had received the blitz that Ukranians have been getting from the start.
Sadly they have had to promise not to send them into Russia.

[ToraToraTora]

Great news ich, we must defeat this bar steward and get him in the Hague ASAP. This is not just a Ukrainian issue and the sooner we all wake up to it the better. I'm delighted that we are helping like we are.

[ToraToraTora]

Can you imagine what Agent Cob would be doing now if he'd have won in 2019? Yet there are people on here who voted Labour in 2019. Un-effing-believable.

[douglas9401]

Not much worse than Liz Truss of brief and recent memory I suspect.

[jno]

Truss is off to Taiwan, hoping to do to China what she did to Britain no doubt.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/11/liz-trusss-taiwan-visit-called-instagram-diplomacy-alicia-kearns-foreign-affairs-select-committee-chair

[ToraToraTora]

^^^ interesting to see the Putin apologists trying to deflect the Agenda.

[douglas9401]

No deflection, just addressing your crowbarred Corbyn 'point'.

[ToraToraTora]

not crowbarred me old china, he could have won and people like you voted for him. Wear your embarassment me old china.

[douglas9401]

I'll wear it like you wear your clown shoes.

Blustering fool.

[douglas9401]

Dusting off the old chestnuts eh?

No thanks.

[ichkeria]

This was first suggested in February when Zelensky came to London. So I’d hope that by now they have already gone the length of preparing the launchers: either adapted native aircraft, western aircraft, or even some form of ground launch capability. The first option is probably the most likely.
These things can penetrate underground bunkers and are effectively 1000kg bombs.
There appears to be some doubt about the range of the ones sent to Ukraine: or how susceptible they are to air defence.
But the whole of Crimea, the Kerch bridge, the Black Sea fleet, not to mention airfields in W Russia and Belarus, are now within range.