Russia on Saturday promised “retaliation” to Ukraine after its shots carried out 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.
These actions of the kyiv regime, which is supported by its Western guardians, will be subject to reprisals
warned the Russian army in a press release.
In recent weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to order his army to strike downtown kyiv in response to Ukrainian attacks carried out with US ATACMS or Storm Shadow British, without however implementing his words at this stage.
Earlier on Saturday, the Russian army said it had intercepted the day before, during this attack, eight missiles
ATACMS 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.
American green light given in November
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 series 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 an answer
with each Ukrainian attack of this type against its territory.
American President-elect 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, citing a intensification
and one aggravation
of the conflict.
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Ukrainian soldiers fire a howitzer toward Russian troops on a front line in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, January 3, 2025.
Photo: Reuters / Sofiia Gatilova
On the front
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 Lugansk, 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.
