How British Storm Shadow missiles are helping Ukraine turn the tide in the war against Russia

RUSSIA has admitted Britain’s shadow storm missiles are a nightmare for invaders in Ukraine.

The bunker-busting cruise missiles dodged their air defense systems, paving the way for Kiev’s counteroffensive.

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Yevgeny Balitsky, the Kremlin-appointed governor of occupied Zaporizhia, said the weapons “certainly cause us problems.”

He added, “We somehow learned how to shoot down US-supplied HIMARS, but our air defenses are having a hard time dealing with Storm Shadow.”

“It flies at different speeds, at different altitudes and in changing modes.”

He was speaking days after a precision storm shadow attack reportedly killed 52-year-old Major General Sergei Goryachev and eight other senior officers in a targeted attack on a command post in Zaporizhia.

Last week, another attack hit a Russian headquarters near Henichesk, minutes after Vladimir Putin’s Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov left.

The airborne GPS-guided missiles – which have a range of up to 520 kilometers and can zigzag at different altitudes – have also attacked the occupied port cities of Berdyansk and Mariupol.

Britain last month announced the delivery of Anglo-French-designed storm shadows after Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy asked for a more sophisticated longer-range weapon.

Defense analyst Paul Beaver told The Sun: “Storm Shadow is giving Ukraine a very significant advantage – and I don’t think Russia is claiming that 50 percent of that will be stopped.”

“They can bypass targets before completely throwing off enemy forces.”