Russia says it hit military targets in Ukraine in response to attack with Western missiles


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  • Friday, 20 Dec 2024

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian forces hit military targets in Ukraine with long-range high-precision weapons on Friday in response to an attack on Russia's Rostov region this week in which Ukraine used U.S.- and British-supplied missiles, the Russian Defence Ministry said.

Russia said on Thursday that Ukraine had launched six U.S.-made long-range ATACMs missiles and four British-made Storm Shadow missiles at Russia's southern Rostov region a day earlier.

Ukrainian officials said the Russian missile attack on Friday had killed one person and damaged buildings across Kyiv after explosions were heard in Ukraine's capital.

The Russian Defence Ministry said in a statement that it had struck a command centre belonging to Ukraine's SBU intelligence agency, the Luch design bureau in Kyiv which it said was involved with designing and making missiles, as well as a U.S.-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile system.

"The goals of the strike have been achieved. All targets have been hit," the ministry said.

Reuters could not verify the battlefield assertion.

(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Mark Trevelyan/Andrew Osborn)

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