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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Liam James and Maryam Zakir-Hussain

Ukraine-Russia news – live: Moscow claims it shot down US-supplied ‘smart bomb’

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Russia's Medvedev issues new nuclear threat

Russia claims for the first time to have shot down a US-supplied GLSDB guided smart bomb, weapons capable of doubling Ukraine’s battlefield firing range.

Moscow did not say where it had intercepted the Ground-launched Small Diameter Bomb, which are fired on rockets guided by GPS satellite, with a 150 km range – roughly double that of the US-supplied HIMARS weapons that Kyiv deployed last year.

It came as Ukrainian officials claimed to have shot down 12 Russian drones near Kyiv on Monday, as falling debris set a non-residential site ablaze.

Meanwhile, British tanks have arrived in Ukraine as Ukrainian defence minister Oleksii Reznikov gave the UK a thumbs up as he took a ride in what he said was the first Challenger 2 main battle tank received from the British army.

Mr Reznikov wrote on Twitter that the tanks had “recently arrived in our country” and posted a video that showed him sitting in one of a long line of tanks in an open field, all of them flying Ukraine‘s yellow and blue flag.

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