UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace has said he would be "open-minded" about supplying Ukraine with longer-range weapons systems if Russia carried on targeting civilian areas, Sky News has reported.
Ukrainian requests for missile systems that could potentially hit targets many miles over the Russian border have so far been resisted by the West in an effort to avoid further escalation, in the face of warnings from Moscow, the website recalled.
Speaking to parliament, Wallace was asked by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the possible supply of longer-range missile systems to Kyiv to destroy or damage drone launch sites.
"I constantly review the weapons systems we could provide," he said.
"We too have in our armour potential weapons systems that are longer and should the Russians continue to target civilian areas and try and break those Geneva Conventions, then I will be open-minded to see what we do next," he said.