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The deep strikes have enabled more mid-range attacks by forcing Russia to disperse air defences away from front lines, said Justin Bronk, a senior fellow at the Royal United Services Institute in London (RUSI)...RUSI's Bronk said Kyiv's rapid development of its mid-range capability reflected a gap it had needed to fill.

This was strengthened further following the 9/11 attacks and the ensuing War on Terror. The urgency to thwart such plots led to the “relationship becoming increasingly close, at all levels”, according to Savill. While there have always been policy disagreements between the UK and US, Savill clarifies, the friction between the US government and its own intelligence community is new. In an article published last year, Savill argued that following the purge of numerous US intelligence leaders at the beginning of the Trump administration, countries like the UK would “need to consider the US a less reliable intelligence partner”.