Britain has delivered multiple Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine, giving the nation a new long-range strike capability in advance of a highly anticipated counter offensive against Russian forces. 9News
, giving the nation a new long-range strike capability in advance of a highly anticipated counter offensive against Russian forces, multiple senior Western officials told CNN.
The Storm Shadow is a long-range cruise missile with stealth capabilities, jointly developed by the UK and France, which is typically launched from the air. With a firing range in excess of 250km, it is just short of the 300km range capability of the US-made surface-to-surface Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, that Ukraine has long asked for.Critically, the Storm Shadow has the range to strike deep into Russian-held territory in eastern Ukraine.
The missile is "a real game changer from a range perspective," a senior US military official told CNN and gives Kyiv a capability it has been requesting since the outset of the war. As CNN has reported, Ukraine's current maximum range on US-provided weapons is around 90km. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country still needs "a bit more time" before it launches the counteroffensive, in order to allow some more of the promised Western military aid to arrive in country.
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