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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Robert Fox

The inside story of how British missiles were used to attack the Russian fleet

Storm Shadow weapons were critical in Ukraine’s attack on Sevastopol this week, destroying a submarine, large landing ship and crippling the vital dry dock.

The pre-dawn raid on Wednesday was prepared by a series of commando attacks on radar and missile installations, and air strikes to suppress the defences around Sevastopol in Crimea. The result was that the S400 air defence system, on which Russia has relied throughout the Ukraine war, was neutralised.

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