Shortly after Joe Biden decided that Ukraine should have the same right to attack targets in Russia that Russia has to attack targets in Ukraine, an ATACMS strike on a Russian ammunition depot in Bryansk Oblast received a lot of attention; Ukraine Launches First Missile Attack Using New Authority From Biden, Putin Responds in Typical Putin Way. Rather, predictably, Putin made noises about using nuclear weapons, and the usual people defecated themselves. What was notable was the way Putin responded to this one attack but totally ignored a much larger attack involving a dozen British-made Storm Shadow missiles farther west in Kursk Oblast. This is the largest single use of Storm Shadow cruise missiles in the war and indicates something important was at the location.
The reason for the lack of notice now seems to have been simple. The Russians didn’t want to…
