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It has been identified that equipment and anti-aircraft missiles aimed at reinforcing Pyongyang's vulnerable air defense system have been delivered to North Korea."
Asked what Seoul believes the North has received for the deployment, South Korea's top security advisor Shin Won-sik said Russia has likely used the RS-26 as a way to try and intimidate Ukraine's supporters by raising tensions over the employment of a nuclear capable ballistic missile, one capable of hitting European capitals,
It's a step up in terms of the delivery vehicle,
Townsend said, responding to a Newsweek question during a panel at the Royal United Services Institute, a U.K.-based think tank The RS-26 is designed to carry nuclear warheads, but evidently it did not do so in this attack,
said William Freer, research fellow at the U.K.-based Council on Geostrategy think tank There are a lot of things that Putin is doing right now to express displeasure over ATACMS,
Townsend said, but also to set the tone for the incoming Trump administration Ukrainian forces released drone footage of the Storm Shadow strikes against Mar'ino, Kursk region, Russia. It shows that the missiles targeted the secondary buildings of that facility and hit at least 3 buildings. I marked the impact points on the map. This was an important operation. That's for sure. The fact that the Russian air defense failed to this extent that the missiles got through and even the surveillance drone could operate unimpededly speaks volumes."
Another X user, Tendar, posted photos and videos and wrote Ukraine struck an underground military command post in Marino, Kursk, located ~40km from Ukraine. The command post was stuck by around a dozen UK Storm Shadow cruise missiles and likely had Russian commanders, and possibly North Korean military officals (Defense Express).
One user, Ukraine Battle Map, posted a satellite photo and video of the strike with the caption According to our estimates, only a fraction of these bombs fail, so it doesn't affect the practical effectiveness of this weapon, no matter how cynical that may sound."
We have seen over recent weeks a significant change in the [Russian] action and the rhetoric on Ukraine
For our enemies to be deterred they must know we intend to have no holes in our capabilities, or at least we will soon be upgrading them
Writing in The Telegraph, he said A certain percentage of Russian bombs is defective. This problem has existed since they started using these UMPK kits and it's not being fundamentally solved. We think these accidental releases are caused by the unreliability of these kits, something that does not seem to bother the Air Force."
Ruslan Leviev, a military expert with the Conflict Intelligence Team, told The Washington Post We remember the real price of freedom for Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an address today In particular, an intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation,
Now, with Ukraine hitting back using US ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles, he knows his forced in Kursk are sitting ducks."
The enemy, unable to subdue Ukrainians by force, resorts to measures of intimidation and psychological pressure on society. We ask you to be vigilant and steadfast,
Out of an abundance of caution, the embassy will be closed, and embassy employees are being instructed to shelter in place."
