UK Storm Shadow Missiles Strike Russia
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BBC
4.4 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 November 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Today, the BBC believes Ukraine has fired UK-made Storm Shadow long-range missiles into Russia by Ukraine for the first time.
Adam speaks to former UK defence attaché to Moscow and Kyiv John Foreman, who describes the Defence Secretary John Healey’s remarks to the House of Commons about Storm Shadow missiles as “clear as mud”.
And, BBC News Chief Presenter Sumi Somaskanda discusses why President Biden has changed direction on Ukraine plus the latest on President-elect Trump’s well-known nominees for top roles in his team.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, we have basically this week ended up doing a trilogy of episodes about the Russia-Ukraine conflict. |
| 0:12.4 | On Monday, we looked at what was happening from Moscow's point of view. |
| 0:16.3 | On Tuesday, we looked at it from Ukraine's point of view. |
| 0:19.6 | And in this episode, we're going to look at it from the US point of view, because there's been another development in US policy on what American weapons Ukraine can use. |
| 0:29.7 | And just as we're recording this episode on Wednesday afternoon, the BBC understands that UK-supplied storm shadow missiles have been used on targets inside Russia by Ukraine for the first time. |
| 0:43.7 | So there's a UK angle to this third episode in our Ukraine trilogy this week on this episode of Newscast. |
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| 1:14.4 | And so for the third time this week, we're going to look at matters military when it comes to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Western response to that. |
| 1:22.6 | So we had that breaking news on Wednesday afternoon that UK supplied storm shadow missiles were fired |
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