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Russia vows response after Ukraine utilized US-made ATACMS to strike airfield

Russia said on Wednesday that Ukraine had struck a military airfield on the Azov Sea with 6 U.S.-made ATACMS ballistic rockets, a relocation that could trigger Moscow to launch another speculative intermediate-range hypersonic rocket at Ukraine.

Russia's defence ministry said 2 of the rockets fired by Ukraine were shot down by a Pantsir rocket defence system and the rest were destroyed by electronic warfare.

On the early morning of December 11, 2024, the Kyiv program launched a rocket strike with Western accuracy weapons at the Taganrog military airfield in the Rostov region, the defence ministry stated.

This attack by Western long-range weapons will not go unanswered and suitable steps will be taken, it said.

Russia fired a new

intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic

missile referred to as Oreshnik, or Hazel Tree, at Ukraine on Nov. 21 in what President Vladimir Putin stated was a direct reaction to strikes on Russia by Ukrainian forces with U.S. and British missiles.

A U.S. authorities stated on Wednesday that Russia might launch another hypersonic ballistic missile in Ukraine in the coming days, but Washington does not consider the Oreshnik weapon a game-changer in the war.

After approval from the administration of President Joe Biden, Ukraine struck Russia with six U.S.-made ATACMS on Nov. 19 and with British Storm Shadow rockets and U.S.-made HIMARS on Nov. 21.

Putin, after those attacks, said that the Ukraine war was intensifying towards a worldwide conflict after the United States and Britain enabled Ukraine to strike Russia with their weapons, and warned the West that Moscow might strike back.

The war is entering what some Russian and Western authorities say might be its last and most harmful stage as Moscow's forces advance at their fastest rate since the early weeks of the dispute.

President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office next month, has pushed for a ceasefire and settlements to end the war rapidly, leaving Washington's long-lasting assistance for Ukraine in concern.

Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine has actually left 10s of countless dead, displaced millions and triggered the greatest crisis in relations in between Moscow and the West because the 1962 Cuban Rocket Crisis.

(source: Reuters)