Russia says it hit military targets in Ukraine in response to attack with Western missiles
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Ukrainian officials said the Russian missile attack on Dec 20 killed one person and damaged buildings across Kyiv.
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MOSCOW – Russian forces hit military targets in Ukraine with long-range high-precision weapons on Dec 20 in response to an attack on Russia’s Rostov region this week in which Ukraine used missiles supplied by the US and Britain, the Russian Defence Ministry said.
Russia said on Dec 19 that Ukraine had launched six US-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 Dec 20 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 US-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. REUTERS
