France Ships Longer-Range Missiles To Ukraine

France will follow Britain’s lead by supplying Ukraine with longer-range missiles days after the UK’s Storm Shadow munitions were used to devastating effect against Russian forces behind the front line, Henry Samuel reported for The Telegraph.

Photo Insert: UK’s Storm Shadow munitions were used to devastating effect against Russian forces behind the front line.

France has so far delivered Caesar self-propelled howitzers, MILAN anti-tank missiles and Mistral anti-aircraft missiles, as well as light armored vehicles known as AMX-10 RCs. But it has stopped short of longer-range missiles apparently not to provide Ukraine with weapons that could be used to strike deep into Russian territory.

However, in an interview on TF1 news on Monday night, Macron confirmed: “We have decided to send over and above that, new munitions, new missiles that have a range that allows Ukraine to resist and to lead this (upcoming) counteroffensive.”

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