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Overnight Russian strikes in Ukraine killed no less than six people, including a six-month-old baby and a 12-year-old girl.
The brutal attacks smashed the country’s heating and power system in Kyiv, with dozens of others wounded after the attacks.
NATO was forced to scramble two F-16 warplanes from Borcea, Romania, because the strikes got here near the River Danube border.
Two German Eurofighter Typhoon fighter aircraft also left from the Romanian air base to perform ‘enchanced air policing’ missions.
The Romanian defence ministry said in an announcement: ‘Such incidents reveal the Russian Federation’s lack of respect for the norms of international law and endanger not only the security of Romanian residents, but in addition the collective security of NATO.’
The strikes got here after Vladimir Putin’s fury over Ukraine’s use of British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles to destroy the Bryansk Chemical Plant, which produces gunpowder, explosives, and rocket fuel components.
Putin has turned his attention back to Ukraine after postponing a planned peace summit with Donald Trump, infuriating the US leader.
‘I don’t need to have a wasted meeting, I don’t need to have a wasted time,’ Trump said.
Ukraine followed up its Storm Shadow missile strike in Bryansk by hitting a significant Russian explosives plant in Saransk.
An oil depot in Makhachkala, on the Caspian Sea, was struck by drones flying greater than 700 miles to strike their targets.
The most recent attacks are a number of the largest on Russian oil facilities, which have deepened Putin’s economic turmoil by raising petrol prices and inflicting fuel shortages across the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attacks were an indication of a scarcity of resolve by the West to offer his country with the long-range missiles it must strike back at Russia.
What are Storm Shadow missiles?
Storm Shadow is a low-observable, long-range, air-launched cruise missile developed since 1994 by Matra and British Aerospace, and now manufactured by MBDA.
Their capability to dodge air defences makes them a nightmare attack weapon for his or her enemy.
The GPS-guided ground-hugging missiles with a 450kg warhead have a variety of around 155 miles.
This enables the Ukrainian army to hit Russian troops and provide dumps far behind the frontlines.
What other weapons does the UK supply to Ukraine?
Along with the Storm Shadow missiles, the UK has also sent Challenger 2 tanks, thousands and thousands of rounds of ammunition, and tons of of boats and land vehicles to assist Ukraine’s fight against Russia.
The US has also supplied a considerable amount of supplies to the war-stricken country, donating US air defences and other weapons.
Ukraine embraced using US-supplied cluster munitions to maintain the summer 2023 offensive going, although they’re prohibited by greater than 100 countries over human rights concerns.
It was in August 2023 that Ukraine liberated the village of Urozhaine, in Donetsk, with using cluster munitions.
Additionally they supply HIMARS, High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, to Ukraine.
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