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When you talk about a clear British strategy, I'm afraid I think the Chinese may find that quite hard to see because when Labour came to power it launched a China audit and a year after that, we all expected some form of clear policy to emerge but it didn't. Then Foreign Secretary David Lammy said that we had to understand that most of it remains secret, so one presumes it remains secret to the Chinese and it remains a secret to most of the British government in fact, because few government officials are fully vetted and therefore cannot see secrets."

Although drone strikes and shelling remain constant, Russian combat performance is waning,” Jack Watling, a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank in London, wrote in an analysis for Foreign Affairs this week... Mr. Watling said Ukraine’s battlefield gains had turned the tide in the war. “In Kyiv, there is a growing optimism that Ukraine can fight Russia to a cease-fire,” he wrote.

It adds another tool to Ukraine’s inventory with which it can target systems and positions that it cannot reliably destroy with drones alone,” said Mr Bergs. “Having these bombs available provides the possibility of striking fortified areas, defensive positions, and command posts where a high explosive yield is required.”