And how do we know this? From a leaked phone call from Germany.
Why a leaked German military recording on Ukraine aid is causing an outcry - Reuters, March 5 2024
The discussions included details of allies' operations, such as the fact British personnel were deployed in Ukraine and how Britain's Storm Shadow and France's Scalp missiles were deployed in the country.
One official talks about the fact Britain is already handling for France the satellite data needed for Ukraine to program the missiles.
He suggests it could do the same for Germany - preventing the country from being in any way directly involved in their deployment, which is a political red line for Berlin.
German Taurus Leak - Wikipedia
Gerhartz said: ″When it comes to mission planning, for example, I know how the British do it, they do it completely in reachback [i.e. with support from people who are not forward-deployed]. They also have a few people on the ground, they do that, the French don't. So, they also QC the Ukrainians when loading the SCALP, because Storm Shadow and SCALPS are relatively similar from a purely technical point of view. They've already told me that, yes, for God's sake, they would also look over the shoulders of the Ukrainians when loading the Taurus. But the question is, how do we solve that? Do we let them do the mission planning and give them MBDA as a reachback and then put one of our people in MBDA?″
They British even help the Ukrainians load the missiles on the planes with regards to Quality Control! This is absolutely ridiculous. The Ukrainians can't even load the missiles themselves onto their modified Su-24 bombers with pylons from the British Tornado GR4 without the British watching over their shoulder, literally.
I don't think tagging people is useful, it could be seen as harrassment, and at this point all the information is out there. I've been going on for months about how it's a big escalation to target Russia within their internationally recognised borders like this, if others don't acknowledge this that's fine, everyone is entitled to their own opinions.
If you are interested in further investigating this, look up the leaked Taurus phone call from Germany. They admit that British personnel program the missiles, and even help the Ukrainians load them onto their aircraft. I've posted a comment about it also in this thread.