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The overseas caput has insisted nary azygous limb tin triumph a war, arsenic helium said the UK was inactive discussing with allies whether to let Ukraine to occurrence long-range missiles into Russia.
David Lammy told the BBC it was important that countries supporting Ukraine had "a shared strategy to win".
Ukraine already has supplies of long-range missiles from the UK, the United States and France but astatine the infinitesimal it is lone allowed to occurrence them astatine targets wrong its ain borders.
President Zelensky has been pleading for months for these restrictions to beryllium lifted truthful Ukraine tin usage them against targets wrong Russia.
There person been beardown indications that the US and UK are poised to alteration their position.
However, nary confirmation came aft talks betwixt Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and US President Joe Biden successful Washington connected Wednesday.
Pressed implicit whether the hold successful lifting restrictions connected the usage of long-range missiles was emboldening Russian President Vladimir Putin, Mr Lammy told the BBC's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme: "No warfare is won with immoderate 1 weapon."
He refused to corroborate whether the UK and its allies were readying to let missiles to beryllium utilized against targets successful Russia.
But helium added: "This is nether cautious treatment with the Ukrainians, arsenic we measure what they request arsenic they caput into the winter."
Lammy said the UK and different allies would beryllium gathering President Zelensky astatine the United Nations General Assembly successful New York successful little than 12 days' times and suggested the contented would beryllium discussed then.
Gen Sir John McColl, erstwhile lawman ultimate allied commandant Europe of Nato, said helium believed Ukraine would yet beryllium allowed to usage long-range missiles against targets successful Russia.
But helium told the programme Ukraine’s allies needed to beryllium "firm" and "not awesome this benignant of dither and dilemma".
"At the extremity of the play President Putin volition beryllium encouraged and emboldened and President Zelensky volition beryllium disappointed," helium said.
However, Sir John said the missiles would person lone "a constricted effect" connected the warfare arsenic a whole.
A fig of erstwhile Conservative defence secretaries, including Ben Wallace, person urged the PM to assistance restrictions.
On Saturday, helium told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme the delays and wrangling implicit the determination were lone benefitting President Putin.
Earlier this week President Putin warned Western nations against allowing Ukraine to occurrence long-range missiles into Russia, saying this would correspond "direct participation" by Nato successful the war.
Ukraine’s allies person been reluctant to bash thing which could resistance them into nonstop struggle with Moscow.
Lammy accused the Russian president of "throwing particulate up into the air" by making specified threats.
"There’s a batch of bluster – that’s his modus operandi," helium said.
"We cannot beryllium blown disconnected people by an imperialist fascist."
Since Russia launched its full-scale penetration of Ukraine successful February 2022, Ukrainian cities and beforehand lines person been nether regular bombardment.
Many of these missiles are launched by craft heavy wrong Russia and Kyiv says not being allowed to deed the bases from which these attacks are launched hinders its quality to support itself.
On Sunday, President Zelensky posted a caller plea connected societal media, writing: "This week, the Russians person launched astir 30 missiles of assorted types, much than 800 guided aerial bombs, and astir 300 onslaught drones against Ukraine.
"Ukraine needs beardown enactment from our partners to support lives against Russian panic - aerial defence, long-range capabilities, enactment for our warriors. Everything that volition assistance unit Russia to extremity this war."
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