# Burnham hosts Zelensky and offers ‘stone cloak’ devices just a week after taking PM job

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/burnham-hosts-zelensky-and-offers-stone-cloak-devices-just-a-week-after-taking-pm-job/
- Published: 2026-07-26T21:39:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-07-26T22:04:13+00:00
- Original publisher: The Independent (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/andy-burnham-ukraine-zelensky-stone-cloak-b3021805.html
- Topics: Europe, Politics, UK, World

## Key points

- Burnham hosts Zelensky as his first foreign visitor as PM
- UK to give Ukraine "Stone Cloak" anti-drone jamming technology to mass-produce
- Romania shot down another suspected Russian drone over its territory

## Summary

Andy Burnham hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at a UK naval base on Monday, marking his first international visitor just a week after becoming Prime Minister. Burnham announced that Britain would hand over the intellectual property behind its "Stone Cloak" electronic warfare system, allowing Ukraine to manufacture the anti-drone jamming technology at scale, in a move he said demonstrated Britain's "unwavering" support for Kyiv as the war with Russia continues.

The tablet-sized Stone Cloak device blocks Russian detection of drones it is fitted to, and the Ministry of Defence has already supplied thousands of the jammers to Ukrainian forces; the technology is also expected to feature in Britain's next generation of long-range strike weapons, including the Project Brakestop cruise missile programme. During the visit, the two leaders met more than 200 Ukrainian troops who had completed Exercise Sea Breeze, a three-week Black Sea warfighting and counter-mine training programme in the UK. The visit came as Romania reported shooting down a suspected Russian Shahed-type drone that crossed into its airspace on Sunday, the fourth such NATO-coordinated interception in recent months and the third incursion in three days.

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