Sky News: Ukrainian Armed Forces used Storm Shadow missiles to strike Sevastopol
Air Force Commander Mykola Oleshchuk also hinted at this: "The occupiers are being stormed"
British media report that British Storm Shadow cruise missiles were used in the attack on the shipyard in Sevastopol.
Sky News reports on the use of these weapons, citing Ukrainian and Western sources.
The Independent and the Daily Telegraph also report on this (the latter, among others, cites the Russian militaristic telegram channel Rybar).
The British Ministry of Defense has not yet commented on the information about the use of Storm Shadow for the attack on Sevastopol.
Mykola Oleshchuk, the commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, also hinted at the fact that Storm Shadow was used in Sevastopol.
He stated that the strike was carried out with the use of aircraft.
"While the occupiers are still "storming" and still recovering from the night's cotton in Sevastopol, I would like to thank the pilots of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for their excellent combat work!" Oleshchuk wrote in a telegram.
Currently, the Ukrainian army has only two types of cruise missiles that can be launched from aircraft: the British Storm Shadow and the French SCALP (it is almost the same missile, but it is in service with the French army).
According to the manufacturer, the Storm Shadow cruise missile has a range of over 250 km.
Currently, the Storm Shadow has the longest range of any missile in Ukraine's possession, and can therefore hit targets that Russian forces previously thought were protected.
Britain was the first country to provide Kyiv with cruise missiles, followed by France. The Ukrainian Armed Forces were able to adapt the Su-24 bomber to launch such missiles, the publication notes.
Background. To recap, the GUR reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had hit two Russian vessels at a shipyard in Sevastopol, a large landing ship and a submarine.
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