Moscow: Russia shot down a British long-range missile.
According to foreign media reports, the Russian Ministry of Defense has claimed for the first time on Monday that it shot down the British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missile.
Britain announced last week that it will supply Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine.
The ministry said in its daily briefing on the Ukraine conflict that it had shot down a cruise missile as well as short-range US-made HIMARS and HARM missiles, but Reuters said its reports were false. could not be verified.
The spokesman of the Russian Ministry of Defense said that the Russian army will give a full and strong response to the supply of British missiles to Ukraine.
Britain is the first country to officially supply long-range cruise missiles to Kiev, as Ukraine prepares for a major counter-offensive, using the missiles to push Ukrainian forces far ahead of the front line with Russian forces and weapons. Will be able to target the boxes.
Moscow said on Sunday that Ukraine had used the missiles to target industrial sites in the Russian-controlled city of Luhansk in eastern Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday that Russia viewed Britain’s decision to supply missiles as a “very negative” activity.
British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace told the House of Commons that long-range Storm Shadow missiles from Ukraine were promised by Prime Minister Rishi Singh. On the other hand, according to the American newspaper Eurasian Times, some military experts in Russia have reassured that the Storm Shadow missile will not pose an unusual problem for Russia, as the country’s air defense system has already proven it. That they could intercept the Anglo-French missile and shoot it down.
The Storm Shadow cruise missile’s navigation system consists of inertial navigation systems, satellite navigation (GPS) and terrain referencing, and can destroy bunkers, hard infrastructure, and other moving or fixed targets, including command and control centers. , including airports, ports and power stations
