{"id":298936,"date":"2024-11-21T07:12:17","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T07:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=298936"},"modified":"2024-11-23T06:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T06:56:12","slug":"ukraine-fires-uk-supplied-storm-shadow-missiles-at-targets-inside-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=298936","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine fires UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at targets inside Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ukraine has fired British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles into Russia, a source has told Sky News.<\/p>\n

The UK and Ukraine have not yet confirmed the use of the long-range weapons in Russia but their deployment has been widely reported in British media.<\/p>\n

Footage has been posted on Telegram reportedly showing wreckage from one of the missiles in Russia’s Kursk region, which borders Ukraine<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The UK had previously said that British tanks, anti-tank missiles and other military equipment could be used inside Russia as part of Ukraine’s defence – but had kept restrictions on the use of long-range missiles.<\/p>\n

It comes just days after US President Joe Biden authorised the same policy shift<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Russia’s defence ministry said on Tuesday that Ukraine had fired six US-supplied Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS)<\/strong><\/a> in the Bryansk region.<\/p>\n

A Russian state news agency cited the ministry as saying the missiles caused no casualties.<\/p>\n

Missiles will have a ‘marginal effect’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sky News’ security and defence editor Deborah Haynes<\/a><\/strong> says Ukraine’s allies have been pursuing a strategy of ambiguity and “it remains to be seen whether we get official confirmation on this from the UK or from Ukraine”.<\/p>\n

“There is also the uncomfortable reality that Ukraine’s stockpile of Storm Shadow missiles is severely limited, so their use will only have a marginal effect<\/strong><\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sky’s military analyst Sean Bell<\/a><\/strong> says he would be amazed if this attack really marks the first time such a missile has been used by Ukraine to hit inside Russia.<\/p>\n

“I would be quite surprised if they haven’t been used for selected targets further on [into Russia] because they are… very, very effective at striking Russian logistics hubs, headquarters, ammunition dumps,” he said.<\/p>\n

The same missiles are also used by French forces, using the alternative name SCALP, and are made by the Anglo-French arms manufacturer, MBDA.<\/p>\n

Embassies shut over air attack fears<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Earlier, the US and some other Western embassies in Kyiv closed amid fears Russia was preparing a major air attack<\/a><\/strong> on the Ukrainian capital.<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been asking Kyiv’s allies to give his troops the capability to strike deeper behind Russian lines for over a year.<\/p>\n

Mr Biden’s change of policy is linked to changing tactics by the Russians, which began deploying North Korean ground troops<\/a><\/strong> to supplement its own forces.<\/p>\n

The White House is set to announce more military aid for Ukraine worth up to $275m (\u00a3217m), the US defence secretary has said.<\/p>\n

Lloyd Austin said the support would “meet critical battlefield needs” and would include munitions for rocket systems, artillery and tank weapons, along with anti-personnel landmines<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Russian politician Maria Butina and Donald Trump Jr, the son of US President-elect Donald Trump<\/a><\/strong>, both warned that Mr Biden’s decision over Ukraine’s usage of long-range missiles could spark the start of a third world war<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vladimir Putin lowered the threshold required for the use of nuclear weapons<\/strong><\/a> after the US move, adding to fears the conflict could escalate.<\/p>\n

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The missile launch comes after Donald Trump Jr, the son of US President-elect Donald Trump, warned that Ukraine’s use of long-range Western-supplied missiles could spark WWIII<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298936"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":298983,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298936\/revisions\/298983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}