The video, which appeared on social networks, recorded the incredible miss of the Russian military anti-aircraft complex “Pantsir”, which failed to shoot down the British Storm Shadow missile delivered to Ukraine, despite the fact that it was “blocked” by the collimator of the Russian weapons.

The video, which first appeared on Russian Telegram channels, shows how at 00:08 seconds the Pantsyria sighting system takes aim at a British long-range missile, immediately launching an interceptor missile. As you can see in the footage, the Russian missile then whizzes past the British one, appearing to “lean in” at the last second, even though it was on an interception trajectory.

Most likely, this was caused by the electronic evasion systems that the Storm Shadow missiles are equipped with. A second missile fired by Armor also appears to have missed its target after the British missile appears to have accelerated significantly after avoiding the first hit.

The images are all the more impressive given that the Pantsir systems are one of the most modern short-range air defense systems in the Russian armed forces, which entered service in 2012. Such systems were installed by cranes on the roofs of buildings in Moscow, including the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense of Russia in January.

A video of the “meeting” of the Pantsir system and the British Storm Shadow missile appeared on social networks on Thursday evening, the same day that the Ukrainians hit the Chongar bridge connecting the Russian-controlled parts of the Kherson region with the Crimean peninsula with missiles. traffic will be redirected to another route.

It was the occupying administrations installed by the Russians in the two regions that claimed the damage to the bridge, Volodymyr Saldo, the so-called governor of the occupied territories in Kherson, said that the strike was probably carried out by Storm Shadow missiles. .

The Chongar Bridge, known as the “Gateway to Crimea,” is one of several bridges that connect Crimea, illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014, to mainland Russia. These bridges are an alternative to the narrow isthmus that connects the peninsula to the mainland.

The Russians cited repeated strikes by Ukrainians from Storm Shadow systems

On May 13, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that Ukrainian planes had struck two industrial facilities in the city of Luhansk with Storm Shadow cruise missiles supplied by Great Britain.

“This attack used Storm Shadow surface-to-surface missiles supplied to the Kyiv regime by Great Britain, contrary to London’s statements that these weapons will not be used against civilian targets,” the Russian agency said in the voice of its spokesman. Ihor Konashenkov.

His statements at the time were questionable because they came just two days after London officially confirmed that it had supplied such missiles to Ukraine, and Konashenkov’s statements could not be independently verified.

On May 21, Volodymyr Rogov, appointed by Russia as the “governor” of the territories controlled by him in the Zaporizhzhia region, in turn announced the Ukrainian missile strikes by Storm Shadow. In Telegram, Rogov stated that seven rockets were fired at the city of Berdyansk, four of which were Storm Shadow missiles.

He claimed that six missiles were intercepted and one fell on the outskirts of the city, but there were no casualties.

A Russian general was reportedly killed in a Storm Shadow missile attack

This month, on June 12, Russian military correspondents reported that as a result of a Ukrainian missile attack on the Zaporizhia front, an experienced Russian general, Serhii Horyatsev, who, among other things, commanded Russian troops in Transnistria, was killed.

“The Chief of Staff of the 35th Combined Arms Army, Major General Serhii Horyatsev, was killed as a result of enemy missile fire,” Russian military blogger Voenkor Kotenok reported in a Telegram post on Monday night.

Several Russian military bloggers said Goryachev was likely killed by a British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missile.

The Ministry of Defense of Russia has not yet commented on Horyachev’s death. The Zaporizhia region, 80% controlled by Russian troops, is one of the main targets of the Ukrainian counteroffensive.

New footage of the Pantsir system failure now surfacing on social media further casts doubt on the Russian Defense Ministry’s May 16 claim that it had shot down at least 7 Storm Shadow missiles in one day.

As always, the statements of the Russian military should be taken with a significant amount of skepticism. In this case, if we were to count the number of Storm Shadow missiles that Russia claims to have shot down or that Ukraine used in attacks, it would probably far exceed the number actually supplied by the UK to Kyiv.

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