At a press conference in Berlin, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said that sending long-range missiles to Ukraine will not lead to an escalation, Sky News reports.

According to the minister, at each stage, Ukraine's allies were warned that the provision of certain weapons, in particular anti-tank weapons, tanks and long-range artillery, would be regarded by Russia as an escalation of the conflict.

He noted that this has not happened, and if what the allies are doing helps Ukraine defend itself against illegal and unjustified aggression, then nothing prevents them from helping it regain its territory.

According to him, as long as the West "is not in a situation where a NATO soldier kills a Russian soldier, it is not an escalation."

Cameron said in response to a question whether Great Britain was pushing Germany behind the scenes to supply TAURUS missiles to Ukraine that he did not want to "play into the hands of some Russian version of the disagreement between the allies." He noted that he could only speak about the British experience in terms of how effective the weapons his country had provided to Ukraine were.