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Ukraine ‘targeted North Korean and Russian personnel’ with British missiles yesterday

Yesterday, Ukraine used UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles in Russia.

The United Kingdom and Ukraine have not yet confirmed the use of long-range weapons in Russia, but their deployment has been widely reported.

Images were published on Telegram showing the wreckage of one of the missiles in Russia’s Kursk region, which borders Ukraine.

Ukrainian outlet Defense Express suggested that the target was near the Baryatinsky estate in Marino.

According to the statement, a military facility near the estate, which housed the last of the Romanov Grand Duchesses (Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna), could have been used by Moscow to house North Korean troops.

Troops were sent from Pyongyang to help Moscow retake Russia’s Kursk region, occupied by Ukraine, earlier this month.

Defense Express said the use of the missile suggested larger targets may also have been present, “perhaps even North Korean generals”.

“Speculation suggests that a deeply buried military command post, potentially serving as a communications center, was the primary target,” the report added.

This report should be treated with caution, given that it comes from a Ukrainian media outlet, but the US think tank, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), has said that the stationing of Russian personnel and North Korean near the area was plausible.

“Defense Express, Ukraine’s defense media outlet, suggested it would host a command post for Russian and North Korean troops operating in Kursk oblast,” it said.

“ISW cannot confirm this claim at this time, but Marino is approximately 30 km from the current Kursk Oblast salient, which would be an appropriate distance for an operational headquarters for troops conducting offensives along the projecting.”