The Times - Ukraine fires British Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for first time

Serial numbers on scraps of metal prove British weapons have been used, say Russian channels



Tom Ball | Maxim Tucker
Wednesday November 20 2024, 3.10pm GMT, The Times

Ukraine has fired British-made Storm Shadow missiles into Russia for the first time.

Twelve of the long-range missiles were fired into Kursk, a region partially held by Ukrainian forces, according to Russian channels, which posted photographs of fragments of metal with the words Storm Shadow stencilled on them.

The fragments were said to have been found by residents in the village of Marino.


Storm Shadow fragments found in Marino, Kursk

It comes after Sir Keir Starmer said Kyiv must “have what it needs” to win the war in Ukraine. Britain had been pressing the US to allow the use of long-range missiles against targets in Russia for months.

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