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18-01-2025, 10:07 PM
Ukraine launched an attack on Russia's Belgorod region with six US-made ATACMS missiles on Thursday (Jan 16), Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday. Russia will retaliate, all missiles had been intercepted, resulting in no casualties or damage said Russia to Ukraine attacked again with US ATACMS, promises to respond
MOSCOW : Ukraine launched an attack on Russia's Belgorod region with six US-made ATACMS missiles on Thursday (Jan 16), the Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday.
Russia said to retaliate, all the missiles had been intercepted, resulting & no casualties or damage.
Moscow has said it will respond every time Ukraine fires ATACMS or British-supplies Storm Shadow cruise missiles into Russia. Ukraine first used those weapons to strike at Russian territory in November after obtaining permission from Washington and London. Russia replied by firing a new intermediate-range hypersonic missile, the Oreshnik, and has said it may do so again.
The defence ministry said that over the past week, Russia shot down 12 ATACMS, eight Storm Shadows, 48 US HIMARS rockets, seven French-made Hammer guided bombs and 747 drones. Reuters could not verify those figures. It reported for the first time Russian forces had captured the village of Slovianka in eastern Ukraine, one of 8 Ukrainian settlements it said had been taken in the past week, Russia had carried out 8 major strikes past week on parts of Ukraine's gas energy infrastructure too were supporting military facilities & Ukrainian defence industry.
MOSCOW : Ukraine launched an attack on Russia's Belgorod region with six US-made ATACMS missiles on Thursday (Jan 16), the Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday.
Russia said to retaliate, all the missiles had been intercepted, resulting & no casualties or damage.
Moscow has said it will respond every time Ukraine fires ATACMS or British-supplies Storm Shadow cruise missiles into Russia. Ukraine first used those weapons to strike at Russian territory in November after obtaining permission from Washington and London. Russia replied by firing a new intermediate-range hypersonic missile, the Oreshnik, and has said it may do so again.
The defence ministry said that over the past week, Russia shot down 12 ATACMS, eight Storm Shadows, 48 US HIMARS rockets, seven French-made Hammer guided bombs and 747 drones. Reuters could not verify those figures. It reported for the first time Russian forces had captured the village of Slovianka in eastern Ukraine, one of 8 Ukrainian settlements it said had been taken in the past week, Russia had carried out 8 major strikes past week on parts of Ukraine's gas energy infrastructure too were supporting military facilities & Ukrainian defence industry.
