{"id":19070,"date":"2024-11-26T18:49:06","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19070"},"modified":"2024-11-26T18:49:06","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T18:49:06","slug":"key-russian-air-defence-system-hit-in-ukraine-atacms-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19070","title":{"rendered":"Key Russian air defence system hit in Ukraine Atacms strike"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Russia has made a rare admission, saying that a key air defence system and an air base in the Kursk region were hit by Ukraine with US-supplied Atacms missiles.<\/p>\n

The defence ministry statement, which threatened retaliation, came a day after Ukraine said it had hit targets in the region<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched a record 188 drones in a single attack on Monday night, damaging critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Tensions have been high since the US reportedly allowed Ukraine to use Atacms missiles on targets inside Russia last week, in response to Russia deploying North Korean troops.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The week culminated with Russia’s use of the powerful new intermediate-range Oreshnik<\/a> ballistic missile on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.<\/p>\n

The first reported strikes by Atacms on Russian territory were reported on Tuesday<\/a>, when Russia said falling fragments caused a fire at a military facility.<\/p>\n

But Monday’s strike on an S-400 air-defence missile battalion at Lotarevka northwest of Kursk on Saturday could be seen as more serious. The S-400 is considered the closest Russian equivalent of the US Patriot missile system.<\/p>\n

The Defence Ministry said three of the five Atacms missiles were shot down but two reached the target, damaging a radar system and causing casualties.<\/p>\n

It also said a second strike on Monday on the Khalino (Kursk East) air base caused “insignificant damage” after one of the eight missiles fired by Ukraine got through air defences.<\/p>\n

“The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation is in control of the situation and retaliatory measures are being prepared,” the statement added.<\/p>\n

It shared photos of what it said was debris from the air base attack.<\/p>\n

Russian military bloggers reported the Khalino attack on Monday.<\/p>\n

Also footage posted to social media on Monday – which documented bright flashes in the sky above the border region – claimed to show the moment Atacms missiles were intercepted by Russian air defences elsewhere in the Kursk region. <\/p>\n

BBC Verify corroborated that the footage was genuine and filmed in Kursk city, but could not establish whether the US-supplied missiles were the source of the flashes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A record 188 drones and four Iskander missiles attacked Ukraine overnight, the country’s air force said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

It said 76 of them had been shot down while another 95 had been “lost track of”, and that critical infrastructure and residential buildings had been hit.<\/p>\n

Some 70% of the power of the western Ternopil region was cut, its governor said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile the exiled Russian investigative news website Agentstvo has claimed that Ukraine is now losing territory at the fastest rate since the early days of the full-scale invasion.<\/p>\n

However, Russian gains in eastern Ukraine are still extremely slow compared to the rapid advances of February and March 2022, when its forces came close to the capital Kyiv.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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