LONDON, July 15 (Portal) – A strike by workers at a secret UK storage facility for Storm Shadow and Brimstone missiles could make it difficult for those weapons to be shipped to Ukraine, the Mirror newspaper said today.
500 workers at an arsenal of the above missiles in Scotland organized a strike to demand better wages and intend to repeat the protest next Monday, the publication said.
The storm shadows, which have a range of up to 650 kilometers, have been used multiple times since the conflict began on February 24 last year to attack cities in Russia or under that country’s control in the Donbass rebel zone.
President Vladimir Putin stated at the time that a special warfare operation by the Russian armed forces was aimed at defending the people of Donbass, as well as demilitarizing and denazifying Ukraine.
The Storm Shadow and Brimstone missiles, an anti-tank and anti-personnel projectile with a range of 12 kilometers, are dispatched from the aforementioned warehouse in Scotland, as are weapons for British submarines, based at Faslane naval bases, also in Scotland , condition. says the mirror.
The UK tops the list of European countries involved in rearming Ukraine, where it has sent more than $20 billion worth of arms since the confrontation began.