New claims suggest that a British Storm Shadow missile attack from Ukraine on Russia killed 500 North Korean soldiers. A Russian general and 18 Putin officers were also reported as lost, with another 18 wounded.
Earlier it was reported that a Kim Jong Un general had been wounded – as he commanded troops backing Vladimir Putin’s invasion. The toll relates to the November 20 attack by Ukraine – the first to use UK Storm Shadow missiles deep inside Russia.
It was known the pinpoint missiles had hit a Russian command post and military facility yet the scale of the Russian losses is now alleged to be quite large. The Russian general killed was named as Lt-Gen Valery Solodchuk. The Russian authorities have not confirmed losses which would be grievous to both Russia and North Korea if confirmed.
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The Storm Shadows were targeted at an underground military facility in Maryino on a Tsarist estate, in Kursk region. New footage shows a Storm Shadow missile involved in the attack as it flew towards its target, it has been claimed.
If true, the losses may explain Vladimir Putin’s furious reaction – firing a new Oreshnik hypersonic missile at Dnipro, and his public boasts he had a new super weapon which was unstoppable by the West. Moscow also threatened that use by Ukraine of NATO-supplied missiles meant Putin could legitimately hit back with nuclear missiles.
The Russian officers reportedly killed are from Putin’s Southern and Eastern Military Districts. US-based Global Defense Corp reported that 500 North Korean soldiers were killed alongside Russian officers.
However there was no independent confirmation. Some 10,000-plus North Koreans are believed to have been moved across Siberia to the war zone after being ordered to serve Putin by their leader Kim Jong Un.
They are either currently fighting for Putin or about to be deployed. Storm Shadow missiles on 20 November hit the sanatorium of the Russian Presidential Affairs Directorate in Maryino, a former Tsarist estate, say reports
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