In an article otherwise dedicated to reporting that the U.K. seems to have Washington on board the policy of launching long-range missiles against Russia, and thus headlined “Biden Indicates Shift in Ukraine’s Deployment of Storm Shadow Missiles,” Financial Times also reported on Sept. 14 that some voices in London are expressing nervousness and concern.
“Earlier on [Sept. 13] Friday, Lord Kim Darroch, Britain’s former national security adviser, warned that allowing long-range Storm Shadow missiles to be fired by Ukraine into Russia risked intensifying the conflict. Darroch, ex-ambassador to Washington, said Western allies should think carefully about Putin’s warnings this week that the deployment of longer-range weapons against targets inside Russia would mean NATO would be `at war’ with Moscow. `We really don’t want to escalate this,’ Darroch told the Financial Times.”