Watch: Defence secretary John Healey faces MPs as Ukraine fires British missiles at Russia for first time

Watch as defence secretary John Healey faced MPs on Thursday (21 November) after Ukraine fired British missiles at Russia for the first time.

The British-made missile – which Kyiv has been lobbying to use beyond Russia’s borders for months – was fired at Russia on Wednesday, with images published by Russian military bloggers purporting to show Storm Shadow fragments in Russia’s Kursk region, beyond Ukraine’s northeastern border.

Meanwhile, Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile from Astrakhan region during a Thursday morning attack, Ukraine’s air force said.

Ukraine’s military also said it shot down six Kh-101 cruise missiles launched by Russia during the attack.

The Russian attack targeted enterprises and critical infrastructure in the central-eastern city of Dnipro, the air force said, at a time of escalating moves in the 33-month-old war launched by Russia in Ukraine.

It was unclear from the statement what the intercontinental ballistic missile targeted and whether it caused any damage.

The missiles have a range of thousands of kilometres and can be used for delivering nuclear warheads, though they can also have conventional warheads.