However, the U.S. and U.K. still prohibit Ukraine from using U.S.-made ATACMS missiles and British-made Storm Shadow missiles for strikes deeper inside Russia. "The only way to stop the glide bombs is to hit the air bases used by those Russian planes; and the only way to hit those bases is to use the Western kit they already have," he said in an op-ed for the Daily Mail. ".... Why don't we do it? Why don't we give them the freedom to strike military sites in Russia? After all, the Russians have rained indiscriminate murder on Ukrainian cities – never mind ­military bases – for more than two years."Johnson said that "it was the British Challengers that broke the taboo on sending tanks" to Ukraine and that "it was the British decision to give the NLAW anti-tank missiles that emboldened other European countries to give their own lethal weaponry.