France will supply Ukraine with long-range weapons following Britain’s move to send the weapons in May.
Speaking on arrival at a summit of the 31-member NATO alliance in Lithuania, French President Emmanuel Macron said he had decided to boost military aid to Ukraine to help its counteroffensive.
“I have decided to increase deliveries of weapons and equipment to enable the Ukrainians to have the capacity to strike deeply,” he said.
In May, Britain announced it was supplying the Storm Shadow, a Franco-British surface-to-air missile produced by MBDA.
Its French version, SCALP, has a range of about 250km (155 miles).
Macron said the delivery would follow France’s policy of assisting Ukraine to defend its territory, implying that Paris had received assurances from Kyiv that the missiles would not be fired into Russia.
Credit || Al Jazeera
