MOSCOW : Ukraine launched an assault on Russia’s Belgorod area with six US-made ATACMS missiles on Thursday (Jan 16), the Russian Defence Ministry stated on Friday.
It stated that Russia would retaliate, however that every one the missiles had been intercepted, leading to no casualties or harm.
Moscow has stated it can reply each time Ukraine fires ATACMS or British-supplies Storm Shadow cruise missiles into Russia.
Ukraine first used these weapons to strike at Russian territory in November after acquiring permission from Washington and London. Russia replied by firing a brand new intermediate-range hypersonic missile, the Oreshnik, and has stated it might achieve this once more.
The defence ministry stated that over the previous week, Russia shot down 12 ATACMS, eight Storm Shadows, 48 US HIMARS rockets, seven French-made Hammer guided bombs and 747 drones. Reuters couldn’t confirm these figures.
It reported for the primary time that Russian forces had captured the village of Slovianka in jap Ukraine, one in every of eight Ukrainian settlements it stated had been taken up to now week.
The assertion stated Russia had carried out eight main strikes up to now week on components of Ukraine’s fuel and vitality infrastructure that it stated have been supporting navy services and the Ukrainian defence business.
Ukrainian officers stated a Russian missile assault killed a minimum of 4 folks and partially destroyed an academic facility within the metropolis of Kryvyi Rih in southern-central Ukraine on Friday. No less than seven others have been harm, a few of them severely, Serhiy Lysak, the governor of the Dnipropetrovsk area, stated on Telegram.
