A RUSSIAN general and 500 North Korean troops have reportedly been killed by British Storm Shadow missiles in a deadly strike. The attack by Ukraine last Wednesday is said to have wiped out Lt-Gen

It was the first shipment of missiles by the Labour government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The exact dates and quantities of the deliveries, which were not publicly announced, remain undisclosed for operational security reasons.

Hundreds of troops are believed to have been killed after the missiles struck an underground bunker in Russia.

Ukraine launched British-French-made Storm Shadow missiles at targets inside Russia for the first time on Wednesday, according to a Russian military blog and Reuters, a day after Ukraine fired US-made ATACMS missiles into Russia.

The Storm Shadow missile strike, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out on November 20 on an underground facility on the territory of the sanatorium of

British-made Storm Shadow missiles have been fired into Russian territory by Ukraine for the first time. Telegraph readers have said the situation is now “spiralling out of control at an alarming rate”. Ukraine’s defence minister avoided confirming that his country used UK-made long-range missiles at a press conference on Wednesday.

The UK government recently supplied Ukraine with dozens more Storm Shadow cruise missiles, according to people familiar with the matter, a first under Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has pledged continued support for the country’s war against Russia.

Ukraine may possess an even larger number of Western missiles, which it can use to conduct strikes deep into Russia. According to Bloomberg, citing its sources, Kyiv is believed to have received a new batch of conventional,