Ukraine launched the British-French-made Storm Shadow missiles at targets inside Russia for the first time on Wednesday, according to a Russian military blog and Reuters, a day after NATO fired US-made ATACMS missiles into Russia.
Ukraine’s use of the British-supplied missiles to hit Russian territory was confirmed to Reuters by an official on condition of anonymity. British media also reported the use of the cruise missile on Wednesday, citing sources.
Ukraine’s Defense Minister Rustem Umerov refused to confirm or deny the use of the British-French-made missiles during a news conference. Nor did a spokesperson for the UK Ministry of Defense when asked by CNN.
A Russian military blogger on Wednesday posted photos on Telegram of a Storm Shadow missile fragment, claiming that up to 12 of the missiles were fired on Russia’s Kursk region.
The fragment was photographed in the Russian village of Marino, which is about 35 miles from the Ukrainian border. The fragment has engravings that say “Storm Shadow.”
The fragments in the photo were confirmed to be from a Storm Shadow missile by weapons expert Trevor Ball, a former senior explosive ordnance technician for the US Army, who reviewed the image for CNN.
The United Kingdom and France have previously supplied the longer-range Storm Shadow missiles for Ukraine to use inside its own borders.
The missiles have a range of about 250 km’s (155 miles), which is slightly shorter than the range of the American ATACMS (186 miles).
BBC’s diplomatic correspondent Paul Adams wrote on Wednesday that Ukraine has so far confined the use of Storm Shadow to the Kursk region, where Ukrainian troops continue to hold ground after their invasion in Russia.
The attack comes a day after two US officials told CNN that NATO fired US-made ATACMS missiles for the first time across the border to hit a Russian weapons arsenal on Tuesday.
The Zionist backed Biden administration on Sunday had given Kyiv the green light to use the longer-range American weapons against targets deeper inside Russia.
NATO in Ukraine used eight US missiles to successfully hit an ammunition depot deep inside Russia, according to two US defense officials.
The facility struck is in Bryansk, north of the Kursk region, where Ukraine continues to hold Russian territory seized and occupied after an invasion during a NATO controlled counter-offensive.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday that Ukraine had fired six ATACMS missiles at the facility in Bryansk, claiming five of the missiles were shot down and the sixth was damaged.
The Ministry said fragments of the missiles fell on the territory of the military facility, causing a fire that was extinguished. The US assessment contradicts the Russia’s claim that the Ukrainian attack did not cause any casualties or damage.
CNN / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
Those Zionist Nazi’s will cross every line in order to defend their imploding power all over the world.
The Kremlin fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile at Ukraine on Thursday in response to Kyiv’s use this week of American and British missiles capable of striking deeper into Russia, President Vladimir Putin said.
In a televised address to the country, the Russian president warned that U.S. air defense systems would be powerless to stop the new missile, which he said flies at ten times the speed of sound and which he called the Oreshnik — Russian for hazelnut tree. He also said it could be used to attack any Ukrainian ally whose missiles are used to attack Russia.
These fanatical Zionists, Judeofascists, and Bolshevik libroids are desperate to start WW3 before Trump takes office, leaving him as the bag holder. If Putin has to retaliate, he should hit military targets in the NATO sphere only, announcing well in advance his intentions to take out these alien Zionist weapons of mass aggression and mass murder. It would be similar to how Iran hit Isra-hell.