UK to join US-Australian Precision Strike Missile programme, backed by £190 million, with first deliveries expected as early as next year.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because Russia has resumed hitting Ukraine's grid substations heading into a war-strained year and just opened a new front across the Oskil river near Kupiansk, threatening both civilian heat and a fresh Ukrainian defensive collapse.
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"the Ministry of Defence announced on Tuesday that the UK would join the US-Australian Precision Strike Missile programme, providing the Army with a weapon capable of hitting targets up to 500km away."
Independent outlet reporting the same fact; folded into this claim by the clustering pass.
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- Russian forces established a bridgehead on the east bank of the Oskil river north of Kupiansk
- Strikes on Ukrainian transmission substations resumed on Jun 26 after a five-week pause
- Russian Shahed-type drone output has reached roughly 190 airframes per week
- Neither side retains the capacity for a decisive offensive before autumn
- The EU approved a fourteenth military-assistance tranche including long-range strike systems