12 UK Storm Shadow Missiles Were Fired Into Russia, Local Sources Say

12 UK Storm Shadow Missiles Were Fired Into Russia, Local Sources Say

            Update(1227ET): More details have emerged of Wednesday's Storm Shadow missile attack from Ukraine on Russia. This marks the first authorized known use of the long-range weapon in a cross-border attack. Previously the British government restricted use to within the Ukrainian battlespace, in the Donbass for example.

Russian war correspondents have confirmed that "A missile’s flight was heard over Kursk. There’s information about a Storm Shadow attack near Rylsk." While the extent of damage or precise targets is unclear, sources on the ground say that up to a dozen Storm Shadows https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024/11/20/ukraine-fires-uk-made-storm-shadow-missiles-at-russias-kursk-region-reports-a87082
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Rylsk’s territorial defense forces https://t.me/rylskopolchenie/7951
 that Ukraine had fired Storm Shadow missiles on targets in Russia.


Kursk regional Governor Alexei Smirnov announced that two inbound missiles were intercepted by anti-air defenses, but did not specify whether they were the UK-supplied missiles.

In a first official acknowledgement and strong hint, Yuriy Ignat, a Ukrainian air force official, wrote on Facebook that "there was a ‘strong storm’ in Kursk region" - https://www.ft.com/content/3ed2033c-64d9-46e6-b5b0-4be7266e29ce
 to FT. One of the aims of the US and UK escalating like this appears to be sending a 'strong message' to North Korea as it's deployed thousands of troops to assist Russian forces.


BREAKING:
Reports of Ukraine firing up to 12 British Stormshadow missiles against Russian and North Korean soldiers in the Kursk region of Russia.
After y-day’s strike with US-donated ATACMS, British long-range cruise missiles are now also hitting Russian territory
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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1859240544242737156?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

It remains undisclosed how many Storm Shadows Britain has given Ukraine over the course of the war, or how many Kiev still has in its stocks.

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Ukraine’s armed forces fired British cruise missiles at military targets inside Russia for the first time, a Western official familiar with the matter said.

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As Bloomberg reports, the strikes using Storm Shadow missiles were approved in response to Russia deploying North Korean troops in its war against Ukraine, a move by Moscow that the UK government considered to be an escalation of the conflict, according to the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/11/20/russia-ukraine-zelensky-putin-war-latest-news57/
 that residents in the village of Marino, Kursk, found fragments from a Storm Shadow missile on Wednesday.

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As a reminder, Storm Shadow missiles have been used by Ukraine inside its own territory for some time but Kiev now appears to have been given permission to strike targets inside Russia.

The missiles carry a bunker-busting warhead, and flies low and fast to evade air defenses.

British Storm Shadow missiles have a range of 150 miles.

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The reaction across markets is less notable than yesterday's with stocks seeing the biggest impact (lower)...

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Treasury yields are down a little, gold up a little and bitcoin extending gains.

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<a href="http://twitter.com/Reuters/statuses/1859245681439027608" rel="nofollow">Reuters </a>is reporting that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said his country will not rest until every last Russian soldier is ejected from its territory - based on the borders it gained after the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.

This will not end well...

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Wed, 11/20/2024 - 12:27

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