As CNN has reported, Ukraine’s current maximum range on US-provided weapons is around 49 miles. The missile is “a real game changer from a range perspective,” a senior US military official told CNN and gives Kyiv a capability it has been requesting since the outset of the war. UK officials have made frequent public statements identifying Crimea as Ukrainian sovereign territory, describing it as “illegally annexed.” A Western official told CNN that the UK has received assurances from the Ukrainian government that these missiles will be used only within Ukrainian sovereign territory and not inside Russia. With a firing range in excess of 250km, or 155 miles, it is just short of the 185-mile range capability of the US-made surface-to-surface Army Tactical Missile Systems, or ATACMS, that Ukraine has long asked for.Ĭritically, the Storm Shadow has the range to strike deep into Russian-held territory in Eastern Ukraine. The Storm Shadow is a long-range cruise missile with stealth capabilities, jointly developed by the UK and France, which is typically launched from the air. UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, calling the donation Ukraine’s “best chance to defend themselves against Russia’s continued brutality,” confirmed the transaction on Thursday after CNN exclusively reported the deal. This book's only redeeming quality is its shortness: it is only 158 pages long.The United Kingdom has delivered multiple “Storm Shadow” cruise missiles to Ukraine, giving the nation a new long-range strike capability in advance of a highly anticipated counteroffensive against Russian forces, multiple senior Western officials told CNN. To top it off, the author amateurishly sprinkles the book with vulgar sexual references. Events are told out of chronological order, and some of the events are apparently just dreams, but that is not made clear enough.

The entire story is told in fractured, vaguely stream-of-consciousness style.

Walter helps a few people cheat their death day by escaping from Exxon, then Walter goes off in search of the technologists who supposedly have technology left over from old Earth.Īs if that's not bad enough, the author also throws in a strange cave monster named the Borg, and a weird snake-woman named Madam Curie, aka Eva. In any case, young Walter grows up in the community of Exxon, where each person has his death day written in a book, presumably so that the community doesn't have to be constantly reminded of death by the presence of old people.

The gist of the plot is this: mankind pollutes the Earth's waters, and then either A) boil away the oceans in a nuclear war, or B) are attacked by aliens who forcibly evict mankind from Earth to a desert planet in order to take Earth's oceans for themselves. This disgrace of a book should never have been published.

Gone To Be Snakes Now by Neal Bell