Over the past few weeks, Ukraine has been smashing Russian military targets using an ultra-precise cruise missile built by the British that was "designed to hit Saddam Hussein in his bathroom", according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

The British Storm Shadow missile can hit targets more than 150 miles away with pinpoint accuracy.

The cruise missile is so precise that in its first use, during the 2003 Gulf War, one Storm Shadow punched a hole in the side of a building and then another one followed through the same hole.

The UK recently supplied Kyiv with an undisclosed number of the missiles, putting in range Russian military infrastructure that had been out of reach so far.

(With inputs from agencies)