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It's Wednesday the afternoon 22nd of October.

Welcome to the PDB afternoon bulletin.

I'm Mike Baker, your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

Ukraine just launched one of its biggest cross-border strikes yet, hammering a Russian

explosive plant deep inside Russian territory. And the

weapons that Keeve used for that strike, they were British-made storm shadow missiles. Later in the show,

whenever North Korea's Kim Jong-un is feeling ignored, out of the spotlight, you can count on

him to toss his teddy out of the crib, usually in the form of a

missile launch. True to form, North Korea just launched a volley of short-range missiles

ahead of President Trump's visit to the peninsula. But first, today's afternoon spotlight.

As the debate over the potential deployment of U.S. made Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine continues,

Western-made missiles are already being deployed against targets inside Russia.

Ukraine's Air Force says it carried out what it called a massive combined missile strike on a Russian chemical plant this week,

using British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles. The target was deep

inside Russia's Brijansk region, a site that produces gunpowder and explosives and rocket fuel

components for Moscow's military. According to Kiev, the strike was conducted jointly by Ukraine's air,

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