(Moscow) Russia on Saturday promised “retaliation” to Ukraine after its firing the day before, according to Moscow, with American ATACMS missiles, a type of attack presented by the Kremlin as a red line in the conflict.
Posted at 7:49 a.m.
Updated at 8:04 a.m.
“These actions of the Kyiv regime, which is supported by its Western guardians, will be subject to reprisals,” the Russian army warned in a statement.
In recent weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to order his army to strike the city center of Kyiv in response to Ukrainian attacks carried out with American ATACMS or British Storm Shadows, without however following through on his remarks to this effect. stadium.
Earlier on Saturday, the Russian army said it had intercepted the day before, during this attack, “eight ATACMS missiles” which targeted the Russian region of Belgorod, on the border with Ukraine, and “72 drones”.
However, Moscow’s forces did not specify whether this Ukrainian attack had caused casualties or material damage.
In November, the administration of outgoing US President Joe Biden authorized the use of such missiles by Kyiv, after having long opposed it, following the deployment, according to the West and Ukraine, of thousands of soldiers North Koreans in support of Russian soldiers.
Since then, Kyiv has carried out several rounds of attacks using these long-range ATACMS missiles, as well as British Storm Shadows.
Russia responded by firing for the first time an experimental hypersonic weapon called “Orechnik”, systematically promising “a response” to each Ukrainian attack of this type against its territory.
American President-designate Donald Trump, whose return to the White House is scheduled for January 20, said in mid-December that he was “strongly opposed” to the use by the Ukrainian army of American ATACMS missiles, evoking a “ intensification” and “worsening” of the conflict.
Near the border with Ukraine, two people were injured in a Ukrainian drone attack in the town of Chebekino, according to the governor of the Russian region of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov.
On the front, a Ukrainian strike left at least ten injured in the town of Gorlivka, in territory occupied by Moscow in eastern Ukraine, according to its mayor Ivan Prikhodko.
Further north, the Russian army claimed on Saturday the capture of the small town of Nadiïa in the Ukrainian region of Luhansk, which it annexed in 2022 and which it controls almost entirely.
Finally, four people were injured in a Russian drone attack in the South, according to the head of the municipal military administration of the large city of Kherson, Roman Mrochko.
