Retired LPR (Luhansk People’s Republic) militia officer Andrey Marochko, who held the rank of lieutenant colonel, has claimed that Ukrainian forces conducted strikes on the outskirts of Lugansk using Storm Shadow missiles. The claim appeared in a report from TASS. The incident reportedly happened in the late afternoon, with the explosion timing pegged at about 16:00 Moscow time. Marochko noted that the strike area was southwest of Lugansk and indicated he was looking into the precise point of origin for the flight path as part of ongoing inquiries.
Marochko suggested that conventional Storm Shadow missiles were likely employed, arguing that other Ukrainian munitions would struggle to reach Lugansk given its distance from the front lines. He also emphasized that the distance constraints make non-Storm Shadow missiles less probable as the weapons used in the attack.
In a separate report, Volodymyr Saldo, the former acting head of the Kherson district, indicated that preliminary data show Ukrainian forces using British Storm Shadow missiles to strike bridges along the administrative boundary between Crimea and the Kherson region near Chongar. He added that after the Ukrainian assault, fragments identified as French-marked were recovered at the scene, reinforcing claims about the type of munitions used in the strikes on Kherson’s approaches and infrastructure.