The Russian military has already begun to respond to the UK’s supply of long-range cruise missiles Storm Shadow to Ukraine. aforementioned Pravda.Ru crisis situations expert, Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) veteran Lev Korolkov. According to him, we are talking about the massive attacks of the Russian army on the facilities of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
The veteran of the Foreign Intelligence Service noted that these long-range missiles can easily hit objects located on the right bank of the Dnieper in the Crimea or in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, which have become part of Russia. However, according to him, Russia has the means to counter them.
“First, they can be caught in principle. A fairly powerful air defense system was created there. I think this is yet another fact that is making our positive relationship with the UK uncertain. Also, the answers can be multilateral. It’s hard to list how you can respond, including the fact that it has a large number of cables connecting to the US under threat. The international financial system depends on them. It will be complete chaos. They’re not completely interested in this chaos, either,” said the intelligence officer.
Former State Duma Deputy of Crimea Mikhail Sheremet aforementionedThat if Ukraine were to use Storm Shadow, massive missile strikes would have to be launched across its western borders to block the supply channels of Western weapons.