The official did not say how many SCALP — an air-launched British-French missile known to UK forces as the “Storm Shadow” and the longest-range Western weapon in Ukraine — had been sent.
“The first missiles had been delivered when the president announced it,” the source said, speaking at the NATO summit in Vilnius.
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France has started delivering a significant number of SCALP cruise missiles to Ukraine, which will be integrated into non-Western warplanes, a French military source said on Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteThe missiles, which can reach 250 km (about 160 miles, would only be used within Ukraine's internationally-recognised borders, the source told reporters in a briefing at a NATO summit in Lithuania.
Paris did not consider it as an escalation given that Russia was firing missiles with a much larger range, the source added.
Франция поставит Украине в общей сложности 50 ракет дальнего действия SCALP, передает агентство Reuters.
ReplyDelete"Французский дипломатический источник заявил, что речь шла о 50 ракетах SCALP, произведенных европейским изготовителем MBDA", — говорится в публикации.
Ранее Reuters сообщало о начале этих поставок под заверения Киева, что вооружения будут использоваться только в пределах "международно признанных границ" Украины. По данным агентства Франс Пресс, первые ракеты SCALP уже находятся на территории страны.