Ukraine’s Storm Shadow: UK Missile Roasts Russian Powder Plant
On the spicy Tuesday of October 8, 2025, Ukraine decided to upgrade its missile mixtape with a UK-French banger called the Storm Shadow—a subsonic cruise missile packing a 1,000-pound explosive punch, aiming right at Russia’s Bryansk Chemical Plant, aka Gunpowder Central. This wasn’t just any strike: Kyiv launched a ‘massive combined missile and air strike’ that had Russians scrambling to trash 57 Ukrainian drones while meticulously avoiding naming the fancy Storm Shadows dropping bombs bingo. Bryansk’s governor was model ambivalent, blinking missile alerts but expertly ignoring the UK missiles backstage. Meanwhile, Zelenskyy boasted these ‘long-range sanctions’ have Russia scraping diesel reserves like a cheapskate at a gas station. And Trump? Still pushing surrender like an annoying neighbor poking in. Bombs away!
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Source: Businessinsider | Published: 10/22/2025 | Author: Matthew Loh,Aditi Bharade