It's fair for Ukraine to use Western weapons to strike Russian soil, says UK defence minister
Mr Heappey was asked on BBC Radio 4's Today programme about reports that Ukraine had targeted a fuel depot on Russian territory.
He added that it was also a "perfectly legitimate" part of war for Russian forces to be striking targets in western Ukraine to disrupt Ukrainian supply lines as long as they avoided targeting civilians - "which unfortunately they have no taken much regard for so far". He said Russia had been saying it was in a conflict with Nato before the war began - "it's nonsense and [Mr] Lavrov knows it".
On Monday, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced the UK would gift small number of Stormer vehicles fitted with launchers for Starstreak anti-aircraft missiles to give Ukrainian forces "enhanced, short-range anti-air capabilities both day and night".
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