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Western long-range weapons were used against Russia – Putin

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Such weapons can’t affect the course of the military operation, the president noted.

Kiev has launched a long-range missile strike against military facilities located within internationally-recognised Russian territory, President Vladimir Putin said in a public address on Thursday. The Ukrainian military fired British-made Storm Shadow missiles and US-made HIMARS at targets located in Bryansk and Kursk Regions, he said.

The use of such Western-made systems in the Ukraine conflict has drastically changed its nature, he warned. “A regional Ukraine conflict instigated by the West has acquired elements of a global one,” Putin stated.

These long-range high-precision missile systems cannot be used without the direct involvement of Western military specialists, the president explained.

Russia’s air defense systems have successfully repelled all the attacks made with the Western long-range missile systems, according to Putin. “The goals that have apparently been set by the enemy have not been achieved,” he said.

The attacks on one of the command centres in Kursk Region resulted in some casualties among the military guarding the facility, Putin said. The command personnel were not affected by the attack and the centre continues to coordinate the operations of the Russian forces in the Russian border region, repelling a Ukrainian incursion, he added.

“The use of such weapons by the enemy cannot affect the course of the situation in the Special Military Operation zone,” the Russian president said, referring to the situation on the front lines, where, according to Putin, Moscow’s forces are continuing their successful offensive operations everywhere along the contact line. “All the goals we set are to be achieved,” he added.

Moscow also responded to the use of the British- and American-made long-range weapons with a combined missile strike of its own, the Russian president said. According to Putin, the attack involved some of the most advanced Russian weapons, including a new ballistic missile. The strike targeted a military industrial facility in the Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk (also known as Dnipro in Ukraine).

On Tuesday, the British state broadcaster the BBC reported, citing defense sources, that Ukraine has fired Storm Shadow missiles at targets in Russia’s Kursk Region.

The claim followed outgoing US President Joe Biden reportedly permitting Kiev to use American ATACMS missiles to strike territory which is internationally recognised as part of Russia. Neither Washington nor London have officially confirmed allowing Ukraine to deploy their long-range weaponry for such purposes.

The updated Russian nuclear doctrine, which was approved earlier this week, states that an attack on the country by a foreign nation that does not have weapons of mass destruction, but is backed by a nuclear power, should be considered a joint attack by both.

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10 COMMENTS

  1. Putin is faced with having to escalate
    To de escalate
    Not sure if it will register though with tunnel vision neocon jews labeled zionists who are hell bent on invading Russia and in the spoils of war

  2. Putin is the master here. The Brits are arrogant fools. The Neocons are blind and drunk.

    And so much for their sophisticated long range missiles, our Chihuahua named Atacms would do better.

    Russia has vowelled to out do them with their sophisticated weaponary using state of the art long range missiles to attack any military basses of any country with these such weapons used against Russia and will be destroyed.

    He knows how to handle this. With equal but more intelligent might.

  3. My partner just said it’s FAFO.
    I like that very much. That’s just what he did with Ukraine, go and cry about that now Valodomire….

  4. They want WWIII. Pure insanity but there you have it. Time for some Western politicians to be removed from office asap.A menace to humanity as a whole.

    Lets hope too,. the cretins here keep their traps shut and stay neutral………

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