Hours after the US President Joe Biden authorised Kyiv to use the British made Storm Shadow long-range cruise missiles, Ukraine has launched several deep inside Russia for the first time on Wednesday.
On Wednesday parts of the Storm Shadow missile were found in the village of Marine in the Kurck region.
It has been reported that Sir Keir Starmer was keen to allow Kyiv to use the missiles which has a range of 155 miles.
On Tuesday the British Prime Minister said at a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, “I’ve been really clear for a long time now, we need to double down. We need to make sure Ukraine has what is necessary for as long as necessary, because we cannot allow Putin to win this war.
“But I’m not going to go into operational matters, because there’s only one winner if I do that, and that is Putin.”
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Lord Admiral West, a Labour peer, said, “I think the Americans and ourselves have made it a huge cause célèbre and it shouldn’t be.
“Way back when, these things should have been released without making a big deal.
They’ve made it become a very big issue and I think that’s unfortunate.”
A massive attack of 12 missiles, presumably British-made Storm Shadows struck the Russian Kursk region. Russian air defense is not capable to stop this barrage. Debris on the ground supports the assumption that Storm Shadows are used.
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On Tuesday Ukrainian forces attacked a “military facility in Russia” using a US made “ATACMS long-range ballistic missile” on Tuesday for the first time.
The ballistic missile hit a military facility near to the city of Karachev in the Bryansk Oblast region some 80 miles from Ukraine.
An arsenal of a logistics centre was destroyed and twelve drone strikes were also used in the region, Russian authorities said there was no damage or casualties.
The destruction of Russian ammunition warehouses in order to stop Russian aggression against Ukraine will continue,” the military said in a statement.
Vladimir Putin has updated the principles of Russia’s nuclear doctrine nuclear deterrence policy and Western missiles hitting targets inside the country could justify a nuclear attack on the West.
The new approved nuclear doctrine implies a nuclear strike could happen if there is “aggression against the Russian Federation and its allies by a non-nuclear state with the support of a nuclear state” using massive aerial non-nuclear attacks such as using drones.
Putin will now consider aggression by a non-nuclear state as a joint attack by the West if it is supported and the strike has been with the participation of a nuclear armed country.
