A fiery explosion lit up the sky around 75 miles from the Ukrainian border at an ammunition store in Karachev, in Russia 's Bryansk area. The strike emerged minutes after the Kremlin threatened a 'nuclear response.'
Ukraine has used the British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles in Russia for the first time, a Western official has reportedly confirmed.Unconfirmed images and footage posted to X/Twitter have shown residents in the village of Marino, Kursk, stumbling upon fragments of the missile.
Storm Shadow missiles have already been used by Ukraine inside its own territory for some time, but Kyiv now appears to have been granted permission to use the weapons to strike within Russia. Starmer yesterday hinted Ukraine would be able to use Storm Shadows as he rebuffed the Kremlin's scare tactics.
Storm Shadow - called Scalp by the French - is a weapon equipped with a navigation system that once launched, descends to a low altitude to avoid detection before locking onto its target using an infra-red seeker. Britain's Storm Shadow missiles are capable of dodging air defences - making them a nightmare attack weapon for their enemy
The decision was a major US policy shift and comes as Biden is about to leave office and President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to limit American support for Ukraine and end the war as soon as possible. It comes just a day after Ukraine carried out its first strike on Russian territory with US-supplied long range missiles.Joe Biden finally gave Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky permission at the weekend to use US-supplied missiles in attacks within Russia
Germany's foreign minister yesterday vowed her country 'will not be intimidated' by Putin, just one day after German media revealed the nation will transform into a NATO staging ground if the conflict to the East should escalate.
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