The British prime minister said the personnel would assist Gulf partners in shooting down Iranian UAVs

The UK will deploy “experts from Ukraine” to the Middle East to help defend against Iranian drones, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced on Sunday. Shortly after his statement, Iran launched an attack on the British RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus, which London had allowed the US to use for operations against Tehran.

In a televised address, Starmer stated that while the UK will not take “offensive action” or join the US-Israeli campaign against Iran, it has agreed to let Washington use its military bases for strikes on Iranian missile launchers…

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