A coalition of anti-fascist and anti-war groups has protested outside the Ministry of Defence (MOD) against the use of British drones and other weapons to kill Russian civilians. International Ukraine Anti Fascist Solidarity, NO2NATO-NO2WAR and the Workers Party of Britain held the protest on Saturday 15 August 2026.
UK drone use confirmed in Ukraine
As recent admissions have confirmed, the US and UK sabotaged a peace deal agreed between Ukraine and Russia in 2022, only weeks after the war began. More than a million people have died as a result. The UK has mounted a long campaign to whitewash the extent of neon-Nazism in Ukraine to promote Britain’s support for the war. In January, the UK’s war-hungry then-PM Keir Starmer launched ‘Project Octopus‘ to mass-produce killer drones for the Ukrainian military.
And in August 2026, the BBC announced that UK drones were used in Ukraine’s mass air attack on Russian civilian targets, supposedly “for the first time”. Russia quickly declared that the UK will face “consequences” for its part in the attack.
“Who can reign in these reckless lunatics?”
In a statement, the anti-fascist groups explained the reasons for their MOD protest:
In March this year a British Storm Shadow strike on Bryansk killed seven civilians. Hundreds, possibly thousands, of Russian civilians have died in deliberate Ukrainian strikes on buses, housing, beaches, and even a new year celebration in Russia.
Of course we don’t know which of these strikes used British weapons, but many civilians have been killed in Ukrainian drone strikes using drones which may have been made in Britain or contain British equipment.
The British political and military establishment is currently attempting to whip up hysteria about Russian sabotage against Britain, and suggesting that the Russian Federation is gearing up to launch military strikes on Britain.
But while Russia has not launched a single weapon, or killed a single British civilian in a military strike, we know that missiles and drones given by Britain to Ukraine have been used to kill civilians in Russia.
The day after the protest the BBC and other media announced that “British-made drones are being used to strike targets in Russia for the first time”.
Already a retired Air Marshall, Greg Bagwell, has told the Sunday Times that these strikes inside Russia with British weapons “could give Russia grounds to consider UK drone factories legitimate targets” – a scenario which nobody wants.
This shows that there are at least some people in the military establishment, and at the Sunday Times, who are concerned at these insanely reckless policies.
But regardless of possible consequences, the Bryansk strike in March, and the new exultant, swaggering drone announcement – a “senior source in the UK Ministry of Defence” told the Sunday Times is “no longer nervous” about possible Russian retaliation – both confirm that, de facto, Britain is actually waging war against the Russian Federation.
Is there no-one who can reign in these reckless lunatics, or even question their strategy?
We ask the British government to stop supplying any military equipment to Ukraine, and to acknowledge that using British weapons for strikes inside Russia, in which Russian civilians have died, could in theory be putting British civilians in grave danger as a result.
Rather than reverse Starmer’s push to wage war, new PM Andy Burnham’s promotion of warmonger John Healey from defence secretary to chancellor signals that Burnham fully intends to go further, just as he is on surveillance and the UK state’s war on speech and protest.
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