Biden, Starmer called off Ukraine missiles decision after Putin’s warning

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Joe Biden have delayed a decision to let Ukraine fire long-range Western-supplied missiles into Russia. Earlier, this plan had sparked the threats of war between Russia and NATO.

UK prime minister told the media at the White House on Friday that he had a “wide-ranging discussion about strategy” with Biden but that it “wasn’t a meeting about a specific capability.”

Before the meeting officials had said Starmer would press US President Biden to support his plan to supply British Storm Shadow missiles to Kyiv to penetrate deeper inside Russia as allies become more concerned about the battlefield situation in war zone.

But the Labour leader pointed out that he and Biden would now discuss the plan at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York the week after next “with a wider group of individuals.”

As they met with their teams across a long table in the White House, backed by US and British flags, Biden played down a warning by Russian President Vladimir Putin that allowing Ukraine to fire the weapons would mean the West was “at war” with Russia.

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