No new pledge on Ukraine missiles after Starmer-Biden talks

UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer did not awesome immoderate determination connected allowing Ukraine to usage long-range missiles to deed targets wrong Russia aft talks with US President Joe Biden successful Washington.

When asked if helium had persuaded Biden to let Ukraine to occurrence long-range Storm Shadow missiles into Russia, Sir Keir said they had had "a agelong and productive treatment connected a fig of fronts, including Ukraine, arsenic you would expect, the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific".

The White House said they besides expressed "deep interest astir Iran and North Korea's proviso of lethal weapons to Russia".

Earlier Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Western nations not to fto Ukraine occurrence long-range missiles astatine Russia.

Putin said specified a determination would correspond Nato's "direct participation" successful the Ukraine war.

Addressing reporters up of their gathering astatine the White House, Biden said: "I don't deliberation overmuch astir Vladimir Putin".

To date, the US and UK person not fixed Ukraine support to usage long-range missiles against targets wrong Russia, for fearfulness of escalation.

However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly called connected Western allies to authorise the usage of specified missiles to onslaught targets wrong Russia, saying it was the lone mode to bring astir an extremity to the war.

The UK antecedently said Ukraine had a "clear right" to usage British-provided weapons for "self-defence" which "does not preclude operations wrong Russia", pursuing Kyiv's astonishment cross-border incursion past month.

However, this excludes the usage of long-range Storm Shadow missiles successful territory extracurricular Ukraine's internationally recognised borders.

The US provided long-range missiles to Ukraine earlier this year, but similar Kyiv's different Western allies these person not been authorised for usage connected targets heavy wrong Russia.

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Asked if helium was intimidated by Putin's threats of a imaginable warfare with Nato, Sir Keir said "the quickest mode to resolve" the warfare successful Ukraine "lies done what Putin really does".

Sir Keir said the White House gathering with Biden was an accidental to sermon the strategy successful narration to Ukraine, "not conscionable a peculiar measurement oregon tactic".

The brace besides discussed the concern successful the Middle East, wherever the Israel-Gaza warfare has been raging for astir a year, and "other areas crossed the world", Sir Keir added.

He told reporters they would get different accidental to sermon these issues astatine the United Nations General Assembly adjacent week.

In a abstracted briefing connected Friday, up of the 2 leaders' meeting, US National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said Washington was not readying immoderate alteration successful the limits it has placed connected Ukraine's usage of US-made weapons to deed Russian territory.

Earlier connected Friday, Moscow expelled six British diplomats, revoking their accreditation and accusing them of spying.

The country's information service, the FSB, said successful a connection it had received documents indicating Britain's engagement successful inflicting "a strategical defeat" connected Russia. The accusations were dismissed by the UK Foreign Office arsenic "completely baseless".

In an interrogation with the BBC, UK defence expert Justin Crump said Putin was investigating the caller Labour authorities and the outgoing Biden administration.

"Ultimately Russia already supplies weapons to the UK's adversaries, and is already engaged successful 'active measures' specified arsenic subversion, espionage, sabotage, and information/cyber operations against Nato members' interests.

"This whitethorn each accelerate, but picking a combat against each of Nato is not thing Russia tin spend fixed however hard they're struggling against conscionable Ukraine," Mr Crump added.

Also connected Friday, the US announced caller sanctions against the Russian media transmission RT, accusing it of being a "de facto limb of Russia's quality apparatus".

The apical US diplomat, Antony Blinken, told reporters RT is portion of a web of Russian-backed media outlets, which person sought to covertly "undermine ideology successful the United States".

In effect to US allegations that RT had sought to power elections, RT’s editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan - who was sanctioned by the US past week - said they were fantabulous teachers, adding that galore RT unit had studied successful the US, and with US funding.

Russia's overseas ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, said determination should beryllium a "new profession" successful the US, of specializer successful sanctions imposed connected Russia.