The Russian army declared on January 4 that Ukrainian forces had fired ATACMS missiles against the Belgorod region the day before. According to the Defense Ministry’s statement, these actions will be subject to “retaliation.”
The Russian army announced on January 4 that it had repelled, the day before, an ATACMS missile attack by Ukrainian forces above the Belgorod region.
“During the anti-missile battle, combat calculations of the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system and the Pantsir-SM anti-aircraft missile and gun system shot down all ATACMS missiles,” the Defense Ministry said in its statement .
“These actions of the kyiv regime, supported by Western curators, will be the subject of a response,” it was underlined.
As part of its daily activity report, published earlier in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry mentioned the destruction by air defense of eight ATACMS missiles, without giving details.
Several attacks recorded in a few weeks
Several similar episodes have occurred since the green light granted to kyiv by the White House, reported in mid-November by the United States press, to fire American long-range missiles deep into Russian territory.
On December 20, two days after a missile attack against a factory in the Rostov region, to which Russian Defense had promised a “response”, the Russian army claimed strikes in kyiv, notably against a command post of the Ukrainian security service as well as a design office.
A few days earlier, on December 13, two days after a missile attack on a military airfield near the city of Taganrog, the Russian military announced that it had launched a “massive attack” on Ukrainian “fuel and energy infrastructure supporting the activities of the military-industrial complex.
In both cases, the Russian army clarified, the missiles used by the Ukrainian forces were American ATACMS.
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