Britain plans to transfer Brimstone anti-ship missiles to Ukraine in the coming weeks. This is reported by the BBC, referring to the British Deputy Secretary of Defense James Hippie.. He spoke about the new military assistance for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, speaking in the local parliament.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said last week that the UK was looking into how these missiles could be delivered to Ukraine.. In particular, the possibility of their installation on cars was considered.. According to Hippie, the experiments were successful and in the coming weeks the weapons will be at the disposal of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Brimstone homing missiles are usually used from aircraft. They are designed to destroy sea and land targets.. The range of the missiles of the first model reaches 20 km, and the second modification - up to 60 km.

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Earlier it was reported that Norway will give 400 million crowns for weapons to protect Ukraine.

Faced with a fierce rebuff in Ukraine, the Kremlin abandoned its plan to seize Kyiv and install its own puppet government there.. Moscow announced that initially its main goal was to reach the borders of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions, as well as to create a land corridor from Crimea to the Donbass. What prospects await the invaders in the near future Tatyana Silina told in the article “The Battle for Donbass: Why Putin Must Lose”?