Jeremy Corbyn was branded ‘Putin’s useful idiot’ as he criticised the decision to let Ukraine use UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles inside Russia.
The former Labour leader and close friend and ally Diane Abbott both spoke out as Kyiv used the powerful weapons outside its own borders for the first time after being personally authorised by Sir Keir Starmer.
Mr Corbyn, who sits as an independent after being kicked out of Labour in a row over anti-Semitism, was ridiculed on X for asking if the strike in Kursk meant ‘we are now at war with a nuclear power’.
He added: ‘As we edge closer and closer to catastrophe, we should be doing everything in our power to bring about de-escalation and peace.’
And Ms Abbott, who is still a Labour MP, asked if there was a plan for ‘if/when Russia fires missiles back’, despite Vladimir Putin’s forces having bombarded Ukraine for the past two-and-a-half years.
New Labour MP for Banbury Sean Woodcock said Mr Corbyn’s comments were ‘a helpful reminder of how Labour has changed for the better’ since he was kicked out.
The former Labour leader and close friend and ally Diane Abbott both spoke out as Kyiv used the powerful weapons outside its own borders for the first time after being personally authorised by Sir Keir Starmer.
Fragments of the Storm Shadow missiles that struck a military facility in the Russian town of Marino were recovered by military bloggers on Wednesday afternoon, with unverified pictures shared widely on social media.
Mr Corbyn, who sits as an independent after being kicked out of Labour in a row over anti-Semitism, was ridiculed on X for asking if the strike meant ‘we are now at war with a nuclear power’.
And Ms Abbott, who is still a Labour MP, asked if there was a plan for ‘if/when Russia fires missiles back’, despite Vladimir Putin’s forces having bombarded Ukraine for the past two-and-a-half years.
New Labour MP for Banbury Sean Woodcock said Mr Corbyn’s comments were ‘a helpful reminder of how Labour has changed for the better’ since he was kicked out.
Fragments of the Storm Shadow missiles that struck a military facility in the Russian town of Marino were recovered by military bloggers on Wednesday afternoon, with unverified pictures shared widely on social media.
The Mail understands the attacks, which followed Ukraine firing US-supplied ATACMS missiles on Tuesday, were personally approved by Sir Keir Starmer.
Putin on Tuesday provocatively signed off changes to the country’s laws on nuclear weapons to make it easier for them to be deployed against Ukraine.
And his foreign minister Sergei Lavrov chillingly warned that the strikes by Ukraine were a clear signal that Kyiv ‘wanted to escalate’ and that Russia would ‘react accordingly’.
This morning Russia allegedly fired an intercontinental ballistic missile as part of a brutal barrage of targets in Ukraine just one day after Kyiv’s forces battered a Russian command headquarters in the Kursk region with British Storm Shadow missiles.
Ukraine’s air force reported that an ICBM had been fired from a base in Russia’s southern Astrakhan region on the Caspian Sea early – the first time Russia has used such a powerful, long-range missile during the war.
The air force did not specify which ICBM had been fired, but its launch comes mere hours after a Russian military analyst said Moscow’s forces could unleash its fearsome RS-26 ‘Frontier’ missile in retaliation for the Storm Shadow strikes.
The Frontier missile is a nuclear-capable weapon weighing roughly 50 tonnes with a range of up to 3,600 miles.
This morning Russia allegedly fired an intercontinental ballistic missile as part of a brutal barrage of targets in Ukraine just one day after Kyiv’s forces battered a Russian command headquarters in the Kursk region with British Storm Shadow missiles.
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