What is Ukraine's ‘mystery missile'? Russia quaking after Kyiv uses ‘new weapon' to blitz Putin on night of hell
VLADIMIR Putin has been left shell-shocked by a brand new mystery missile he claims Ukraine attacked him with overnight.
A massive strike ripped through an airport in Bryansk and reportedly destroyed a placement of Putin's Iskander missile system.
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Vladimir Putin has been left shell-shocked by a brand new mystery missile he claims Ukraine attacked him with overnight in Bryansk
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The huge blasts targeted a Russian airfield with a giant mushroom cloud eruption seen by onlookers
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The severity of the attack has led to Russians accusing Kyiv of using German-supplied Taurus missiles
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Thursday saw one of the most explosive evenings of fighting for some time during the gruelling war.
The night of hell saw
The Russia tyrant hammered Ukraine with 407 drones and 44 missiles - unleashing a
But a valiant
Ukraine
hit back with their own set of attacks.
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Dramatic footage shows one explosion, believed to be from the mystery weapon, followed by a powerful secondary blast.
A follow up attack also took out a launcher for the Iskander a day earlier, Ukraine claimed.
But the blasts were something never been seen before by the quaking Russians during their illegal invasion.
This led to speculation on pro-Kremlin media channels that Ukraine may have fired a powerful German-supplied
Taurus
missile.
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Putin-loyalists Tsargrad said on Telegram: 'Did the first Taurus strike Russia?
"Unprecedented escalation in Bryansk and destruction of Iskander missiles.'
Putin plotting 'final killer offensive' to WIN Ukraine war despite Russian losses nearing 1 MILLION
As channel MIG
Russia
claimed the pinpoint Bryansk strike was carried out with Western-made long-range missiles.
If it was a Taurus, it would mark the first ever time it has been used by Kyiv.
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The Russians would also view it as an 'unprecedented escalation' in the conflict due to the damage the weapon can cause.
Discourse around German weapons has ramped up in the parts 24 hours ever since Chancellor Friedrich Merz met in the Oval Office with Donald Trump.
German sources have had to deny that any agreement had been reached during the talks to send supplies of long-range Taurus' to Ukraine.
Merz had announced at the end of May that Ukraine's key backers - including Germany,
France
, the UK and the US - had all lifted restrictions on where donated weapons can be used.
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And the announcement could even mean that
Britain's bunker-busting Storm Shadow rockets are a nightmare for enemies as they are capable of dodging air defences.
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The mystery blast from Ukraine saw two explosion ring out across the airfield
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Firefighters work at the site of a Russian drone attack in Kyiv
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A Russian bomb lands in Ukraine overnight
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The £800,000 missiles - already being fired within Ukraine - use GPS to precisely hit targets, and can travel at 600mph.
The Taurus missile system is widely regarded as
Germany
's equivalent to the Storm Shadow.
The tit-for-tat attacks came hours after US President Donald Trump said it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia fight for a while.
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The president has been so far unsuccessful on getting the two countries to agree to peace - with Moscow not moving on its demands.
The American was full of praise for Ukraine though as he labelled
The daring operation saw a fired up
Putin's
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It comes as a new report accused Putin of plotting a final killer offensive along three fronts to win the war this
summer
.
The Russian
army
is nearing one million casualties in its bungled three-year-old invasion as
Now, some 125,000 Russian soldiers are reportedly right now massing along the Sumy and Kharkiv frontiers, according to Ukraine's military intelligence.
Over the past fortnight border villages have fallen to Russia as it is may to be preparing the ground for the offensive.
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But some senior commanders in Ukraine believe that could be a feint and Russia is actually preparing to attack further south to push further into the Donbas,
Russia is likely to attack through three areas near each other in the Donbas - Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivka, and Pokrovsk.
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Fire and smoke rise in Kyiv following a Russian drone and missile strike overnight
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