'If President Putin is banking on us getting bored this year, he's wrong,' British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said on Thursday.
The U.K. is sending another 600 Brimstone missiles to Ukraine to support the war with Russia, which is nearing its 11-month mark.
"If President Putin is banking on us getting bored this year, he's wrong," Wallace told reporters during a meeting with other defense ministers at an army base in Estonia."We will plan for this year and next year and the year after and beyond. We are in it for the long haul." British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., on December 7, 2022. In inset: A Brimstone missile at the British Royal Air Force base RAF Marham in Norfolk in east England on December 2, 2015.Described as a"lightweight strike missile," Brimstone systems are used to engage fast-moving vehicles and vessels on land and sea and are able to hit a target without the launcher being in the direct line-of-sight of the target, according to army-technology.com.
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