{"id":13430,"date":"2024-11-20T22:20:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T22:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/londonpost.news\/?p=13430"},"modified":"2025-10-18T12:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T11:06:11","slug":"ukraine-strikes-inside-russia-with-uk-supplied-storm-shadow-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/europe\/uk-news\/ukraine-strikes-inside-russia-with-uk-supplied-storm-shadow-missiles\/2024\/11\/20\/admin1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine strikes inside Russia with UK-supplied Storm Shadow Missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV, Ukraine. Nov 20(<a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/ukraine-fires-uk-supplied-missiles-at-targets-inside-russia-13256037\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sky News)<\/a>:Ukraine has fired British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles into Russia, according to Sky News.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>The UK had previously stated that British tanks, anti-tank missiles, and other military equipment could be used within Russia as part of Ukraine&#8217;s defence, while maintaining restrictions on long-range missiles. This policy shift comes just days after US President Joe Biden authorised a similar change.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Russia&#8217;s defence ministry reported that Ukraine had fired six US-supplied Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) in the Bryansk region. According to a Russian state news agency, the ministry confirmed that the missiles caused no casualties.<\/p>\n<p>Sky News&#8217; security and defence editor, Deborah Haynes, noted that Ukraine&#8217;s allies have been following a strategy of ambiguity. &#8220;It remains to be seen whether we get official confirmation on this from the UK or from Ukraine,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Haynes also pointed out that Ukraine&#8217;s stockpile of Storm Shadow missiles is severely limited, which means their use will only have a marginal effect. Earlier, the US and several other Western embassies in Kyiv closed amid fears that Russia was preparing a major air attack on the Ukrainian capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV, Ukraine. Nov 20(Sky News):Ukraine has fired British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles into Russia, according to Sky News. 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. The UK had previously stated that British tanks, anti-tank missiles, and other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":""},"categories":[2395,2482,8273,9916],"tags":[154,285,1226,1412,9170],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Cruise-missile.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13432,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13430\/revisions\/13432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brusselsindependent.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}