Shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge has responded to speculation that Ukraine has fired UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at targets inside Russia for the first time. Mr Cartlidge said: "We do support giving Ukraine maximum autonomy because ultimately they're trying to fight for their lives - this is an act of self defence." Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00The government have not confirmed they've been used and as a former defence minister
00:04I respect the fact they don't want to give a running commentary.
00:08Of course there's a heck of a lot of speculation and a lot of reports across the media as you
00:13know.
00:14So what I would say is yes, we do support giving Ukraine maximum autonomy because ultimately
00:19they're trying to fight for their lives.
00:21This is to help them defend themselves, this is an act of self-defence and the real escalation
00:27here is 10,000 North Korean troops.
00:30The fact that such a powerful dictatorship has come to support Russia in this situation
00:35that should send alarm bells ringing and we have to do everything possible to enable Ukraine
00:40to stand up to them.