According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Ukrainian forces targeted an airfield in Taganrog in southern Russia on Wednesday using American ATACMS missiles. He warned that this “attack using Western long-range missiles will not go unanswered.”
A military airfield in Taganrog, in southern Russia, was attacked on Wednesday, December 11, and “it has been established with certainty that six American-made ATACMS ballistic missiles were used,” the Russian Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday. Defense in a press release. He said two had been “shot down” and “the others (…) hijacked by electronic warfare equipment”.
According to the ministry, “there is no damage. Two buildings located within the airfield, as well as three military vehicles and civilian cars parked in the parking lot adjacent to the airfield were slightly damaged (by debris)”.
“This attack using Western long-range missiles will not go unanswered,” warned the Russian Defense Ministry. A warning that echoes the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who presented Ukrainian attacks against Russian soil with Western weapons as a red line.
A senior American official warned on Wednesday, on condition of anonymity, that Moscow could strike Ukraine with an Orechnik missile “in the coming days.”
With AFP
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