British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Joe Biden have postponed a decision on whether to allow Ukraine to fire Western-supplied long-range missiles at Russia, a plan that has sparked threats of war with NATO from Moscow.
Starmer told reporters at the White House that he had a “broad discussion about strategy” with Biden, but that it was “not a meeting about a particular capability.”
Before the meeting, officials had said Starmer would pressure Biden to back his plan to send Britain’s Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine to strike deeper into Russia. Although Washington had already warned that he did not expect any major announcement.
The Labor leader indicated that he and Biden will discuss the plan at the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week “with a broader group of people.”
