Vladimir Putin's chilling threat to drag Britain into Ukraine war with new 'hazel' missiles

Simona Vlad

Vladimir Putin has threatened the UK with strikes from a “new” kind of missile - as Russia warned Britain it was now “directly involved” in the war. It comes in a week where Russia has repeatedly stoked fears that the war could extend beyond Ukraine - dragging Western allies including the UK in to the fighting. And last night the country’s UK ambassador Andrei Kelin warned supplying Ukraine with longer-range missiles to fire across the border meant Britain was “directly involved” in the