{"id":20282,"date":"2026-08-24T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/24\/russia-britain-ukraine-war-escalation-scalp-missile\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T15:00:16","slug":"russia-britain-ukraine-war-escalation-scalp-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/24\/russia-britain-ukraine-war-escalation-scalp-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Accuses Britain of Escalating Ukraine War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kremlin spokesman said Britain\u2019s military aid to Ukraine has intensified the war in the country and called into question efforts to resolve the crisis peacefully.<\/p>\n<p>According to TASS, Dmitry Peskov said at a news briefing on Monday that London is systematically fanning the flames of the conflict in Ukraine. He also accused Britain of obstructing efforts to bring the crisis to a peaceful end.<\/p>\n<p>Peskov described Moscow\u2019s reaction to London\u2019s new plan to transfer technology for the SCALP missile to Ukraine as \u201cvery negative.\u201d He gave no further details on any possible Russian response to the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, London officials said they had authorised the European defence company MBDA to share sensitive and classified details relating to the British components used in the French-British SCALP missile with Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The SCALP missile is a jointly developed long-range cruise missile by France and Britain, also referred to in some reports as \u201cStorm Shadow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says Britain\u2019s military aid to Ukraine is escalating the war and hindering efforts for a peaceful settlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}