Andy Burnham arrived in Kyiv for his first foreign visit today – as he hands over top secret missile plans.
The PM is in the Ukraine capital for the country’s independence day after travelling overnight by train.
He is announcing that European defence firm MBDA has been given permission to share information on UK components for the long-range Scalp missile – the French-produced version of the UK’s Storm Shadow.
The ‘deep precision strike’ missiles use shared French and British technology, and could now be produced in Ukraine.
Andy Burnham is in the Ukraine capital for the country’s independence day after
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