# Russia threatens British factory strikes over military support to Ukraine

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/russia-threatens-british-factory-strikes-over-military-support-to-ukraine/
- Published: 2026-08-25T08:08:16+00:00
- Updated: 2026-08-25T14:21:31+00:00
- Topics: Celebrity, Entertainment, Europe, UK, World

## Key points

- Ex-Russian official warns of possible strikes on UK drone factories
- Row follows UK sharing Scalp/Storm Shadow missile blueprints with Ukraine
- Burnham to lobby Trump on Ukraine's defence needs next month

## Summary

A former senior Russian official has warned that British drone factories could face a "semi-military" response from "unknown sources" in retaliation for the UK sharing cruise missile blueprints with Ukraine, marking one of the most explicit threats yet against UK targets over the war. Andrei Fedorov told BBC Newsnight that Vladimir Putin was under "serious" domestic pressure to act against Britain, while Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov separately said Russia's military was already gathering data to locate and destroy any missile production sites, accusing Britain of "adding fuel to the fire." The row overshadowed Prime Minister Andy Burnham's first official trip abroad, a visit to Kyiv where he met President Volodymyr Zelensky, chaired the "coalition of the willing" group, and confirmed plans to travel to the US next month with European leaders to press Donald Trump on Ukraine's defence needs.

At the heart of the dispute is Britain's decision to hand Ukraine blueprints for British-made components of the Scalp missile, a French variant of the Storm Shadow cruise missile, enabling Kyiv to produce the long-range weapon domestically. Burnham dismissed the Kremlin's framing, asking "who started the fire?", and reaffirmed UK support for Ukraine following intensified Russian strikes, including an attack on a shopping centre that killed at least 16 people. Separately, Burnham said he was "really confident" a shortage of US-made Patriot interceptor missiles, which Zelensky hopes to secure 300 of before winter, was "fixable" through negotiation involving multiple international partners, after Trump earlier backtracked on allowing Ukraine to manufacture the Patriots itself.

## Coverage

- [Daily Mail: Russia threatens to attack British factories in ‘semi-military’ response to UK support for Ukraine – as Putin warns ‘Pandora’s box has been opened’](https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16077693/Russia-threatens-attack-British-factories-semi-military-response-UK-support-Ukraine-Putin-warns-Pandoras-box-opened.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490)
- [BBC World: UK drone factories may face attacks from ‘unknown sources’, says Kremlin adviser](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg598m3meeyo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss)

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