The BBC is working to verify images claiming to show the aftermath of a Ukrainian strike using a UK-supplied Storm Shadow missile in the Russian border region of Kursk.
Much of the footage is being shared on Telegram - a social media network popular in Russia and which has often been used to carry footage of the conflict.
Footage reviewed by BBC Verify located one clip to the town of Maryino - a small village in Kursk. A reverse-image search of keyframes from the video - in which you can hear multiple explosions and see a plume of smoke - found that the clip first surfaced online at 13:00 GMT on Wednesday.
Another clip showing damage to a building also appears to have been first posted to Telegram on Wednesday. But importantly, neither of the clips show a direct strike by a missile.
Two Majors - a pro-war blogger popular in Russia - posted what it said were photos of missile debris. Again, a reverse image search showed that no earlier copies of the images have appeared online.
BBC Verify has shown the photos to weapons experts but they have not yet confirmed whether they came from a Storm Shadow.
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