These cruise missiles have a range of at least 250 km. This attack occurs, according to the Financial Timesa day after the first use of American ATACMS missiles by kyiv on Russian soil.
Ukraine fired British-made Storm Shadow missiles at military targets in Russia for the first time, the report said on Wednesday. Financial Times citing a Western military source informed of the operation. The revelation of this attack, consisting of several missile launches according to the British newspaper’s source, comes one day after Ukraine’s first use of American ATACMS ballistic missiles against Russian territory.
The Storm Shadow, with a range of 250 km or even unofficially almost 500 km, can allow the Ukrainian army to strike key points behind Russian positions to destabilize the front. THE Financial Times also reports that a Russian blogger said on Telegram that fragments of Storm Shadow were allegedly found near the village of Marino in the Kursk region. Alexei Smirnov, the local governor, said Russian air defenses had shot down two Ukrainian missiles.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Tuesday denounced the “irresponsible rhetoric” of Russia which brandished the nuclear threat on the thousandth day of its offensive in Ukraine. “There is irresponsible rhetoric coming from Russia and that will not dissuade us from supporting Ukraine”declared the head of the British government during a press conference at the G20 in Rio de Janeiro.
«[Vladimir Poutine] is the author of his own exile, and on the thousandth day of Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine I say (to him) again: end the war, leave Ukraine”Keir Starmer said, insisting UK will support kyiv “as long as it takes to win this war against Putin”.
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