Britain eyeing more anti-ship missiles for Ukraine

Britain is considering sending additional anti-ship missiles to Ukraine, beyond the weapons it has already promised, Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said Wednesday.

Wallace said that delivery of guided multi-launch rocket systems Britain has promised to Ukraine would be "imminent" and that London was considering sending more weapons, Reuters reported.

"We are obviously exploring anti-ship capabilities greater than we already put, in the Brimstone family of weapons systems," he told reporters. "We are (also) looking at whether we can donate to complement the Dutch and the Danish (with) our Harpoons as well, although they are a slightly different variant," he added.

The minister noted that training of Ukrainian military personnel was as important as sending arms.

"The Ukrainian forces in the east of the country ... Some of them have been on that front for 90 days, they are exhausted, they are often, in artillery terms, outnumbered in very high ratios."

"It is important to help Ukraine with its ability to replace people on the frontline," Wallace said.

He said he would also be going to Turkey next week to discuss, among other things, exports of grain from Ukraine.

Britain sees Turkey as a possible guarantor of any deal for shipping channels to get grains out of Odesa.