Barely had the echo of the six ATACMS launched against an ammunition depot in Briansk dissipated, the Ukrainian army carried out, on Wednesday November 20 in the afternoon, another strike in Russian territory, this time at using a dozen British Storm Shadow missiles, against a site located in Marino, in the Kursk region.
A second “first” in just two days, as noted by independent media. On the other hand, as noted by the collective of independent journalists Agency, the consequences of these strikes were barely – or not at all – covered by federal television channels, which nevertheless widely echoed the threats and warnings of Russian officials if they took place.
These are, once again, the voenkor, or Russian military bloggers in favor of the war, who relayed the information with a certain bitterness, deploring the absence of a muscular reaction from Moscow. “The political aspect of the event is obvious – the demonstrative use of Western missiles on the 'old Russian territory' [l’auteur fait ici la différence avec les territoires annexés d’Ukraine] in the context of recent resounding declarations from our camp su
