Ukraine to help blast Vladimir Putin's aircraft out of the sky, according to reports.Britain will soon send the Stormer High Velocity Missile (HVM) launchers, the Sun reports, with the Ministry of Defence demonstrating them for Ukrainians on Salisbury Plain, southern England, two weeks ago.It is understood the 13-tonne vehicles can be flown to the war on C-17 transport planes in days.The news comes as Putin's war machine begins a new phase of its bloody invasion with a full-scale offensive to take control of the mostly-Russian speaking Donbas in the east.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had pleaded with the West for greater firepower, and now he has had his wish granted.
Dr Alan Mendoza, of security think tank the Henry Jackson Society, told the Sun: “These vehicles are the best kit yet sent to Ukraine and will leave Russian pilots quaking.
Dr Mendoza added that Britain is warning Russia that its aggression "will no longer be tolerated". He said: "The UK should wear Putin’s inevitable angry and overblown reaction to this as a badge of pride.”But Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British troops in Afghanistan, told the paper that UK's major boost to Ukraine's forces risks further angering Moscow, with the threat of retaliation coming in the form of "cyber attacks, sabotage, assassination or other covert attacks for which his intelligence services have proven capability, including in the UK.”For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletter by clicking here.The Stormer is manufactured by BAE Systems, needs just three people to operate it and and uses Starstreak missiles, which can be used to take down low-flying aircraft and leave pilots terrified.
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