British Storm Shadow missiles were fired today into Russia’s Kursk Region, and also the Krasnodar Region, Bloomberg News reported. It follows by one day the firing of U.S. ATACMS into Russia’s Bryansk Region. According to the new protocol, no retraction of a former policy, by Washington or London, is made; so, the announcement is made by launching the ATACMS or Storm Shadows. Russia’s Ministry of Defense has not yet released an official statement on the matter.
Britain’s Defense Secretary Healey told the House of Commons that he had spoken with Ukraine’s Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov yesterday about the U.K.’s 2025 plans to support Ukraine. He said: “At this point, I’m not able to get into any further operational details… Ukraine’s action on the battlefield speaks for itself… We as a nation and as a government are doubling down on our support for Ukraine and determined to do more.” Bloomberg cites a “Western official familiar with the matter,” saying that the evidence-poor claim that North Korean troops in Kursk was what provoked London.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said the Government does not comment on operational matters.
RT cites photographs on social media that purport to show fragments of the Storm Shadows in Maryino, a village halfway between the Ukrainian border and the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant in Kurchatov. Two missiles were reported on a Telegram channel to have been intercepted in Krasnodar, over the seaport town of Yeysk.
