Russian S-400 air defense system being used on the Ukraine front. Photo: Sputnik/Maksim Blinov.
The armed forces of Ukraine struck the Bryansk Region of Russia with six US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.
“At 3:25 a.m. tonight [local time, November 19], the enemy struck a facility in the Bryansk Region with six ballistic missiles. According to confirmed data, US-made ATACMS tactical missiles have been used,” the report published on Tuesday, November 19, stated.
Russian air defense systems shot down five missiles, and the other one was damaged. Its fragments fell on the technical territory of a military facility in the Bryansk region, causing a fire, which was promptly eliminated, the ministry reported, adding that there were no causalities or significant material destruction.
Russian army used the S-400 air defense system and the Pantsir missile defense system to down the ATACMS.
The Ukrainian attack come after the Biden administration authorized the Zelensky regime to use the long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russia.
On Sunday, November 17, the US mainstream newspaper The New York Times reported that US President Joe Biden had authorized Ukraine to use the ATACMS to attack Russia.
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Sources cited by the newspaper speculated that the first Ukrainian attacks deep into Russian territory would be carried out with ATACMS ballistic missiles, which have a range of 300 kilometers. With this range, the missiles can reach, apart from Bryansk, the regions of Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Rostov, Donetsk, Lugansk, and Crimea, Russian regions that have until now been targets of regular Ukrainian drone attacks.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitri Peskov warned that the authorization for Ukraine to attack targets deep within Russian territory with long-range Western missiles would mean a new spiral of tensions.
Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned that if Kiev receives permission to attack targets within Russia, Moscow will consider it a direct NATO involvement in an armed conflict with Russia and will respond with an “inevitable and destructive” reaction.
Russian President Vladimir Putin previously noted that NATO countries “must understand what they are playing with” when they talk about allowing Kiev to launch attacks inside Russia with missiles supplied by the West.
(Sputnik) with Orinoco Tribune content
