{"id":17807,"date":"2024-11-19T13:07:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17807"},"modified":"2024-11-19T13:07:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T13:07:32","slug":"ukraine-fires-us-supplied-long-range-missiles-into-russia-defence-ministry-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=17807","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine fires US-supplied long range missiles into Russia, defence ministry says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Russia says Ukraine has fired US-supplied long-range missiles into the country, a day after Washington gave its permission for such attacks. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Ukraine used the Army Tactical Missile System (Atacms) in a strike on Russia&#8217;s Bryansk region this morning, the ministry of defence in Moscow said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Five missiles were shot down and one damaged, with its fragments causing a fire at a military facility in the region, it said in a statement.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The strike represents the first time the long-range missiles have been used on Russia&#8217;s internationally-recognised territory and comes shortly after Washington signalled Ukraine had permission to fire the Atacms into Russia.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">On Monday Moscow said any such attack would prompt <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/crr91nn9n79o\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\">an &#8220;appropriate and tangible response&#8221;.<!-- --><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">In a statement, Russia\u2019s defence ministry said the strike was launched at 03:25 (00:25 GMT).<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A fire caused by fallen debris from one of the missiles was quickly extinguished and there were no casualties, it said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Ukraine\u2019s military earlier confirmed that it had struck an ammunition warehouse in the Russian region of Bryansk, but it did not specify whether Atacms were used.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It said the attack, on a depot around 100km from the border near the town of Karachev, caused 12 secondary explosions.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Meanwhile, earlier on Tuesday, Putin approved changes to Russia\u2019s nuclear doctrine, setting out new conditions under which the country would consider using its arsenal.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It now says an attack from a non-nuclear state, if backed by a nuclear power, will be treated as a joint assault on Russia.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<hr style=\"border-top: 2px solid #ccc; margin-top: 20px;\">\n<p><em>Source: <\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c0mzjm7knw7o\">www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia says Ukraine has fired US-supplied long-range missiles into the country, a day after Washington gave its permission for such attacks. Ukraine used the Army Tactical Missile System (Atacms) in a strike on Russia&#8217;s Bryansk region this morning, the ministry of defence in Moscow said. Five missiles were shot down and one damaged, with its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}