Kyiv’s use of US ATACMS has infuriated the Kremlin, which has threatened to hit central Kyiv with a hypersonic ballistic missile in response to the strikes.
January 5, 2025
Russia on Saturday vowed to retaliate after it accused Ukraine of firing US-supplied ATACMS missiles at the border region of Belgorod the previous day.
Outgoing US President Joe Biden authorized Kyiv to use the long-range weapons against Russia last year, in a move Moscow denounced as a grave escalation of the nearly three-year conflict.
“On January 3, an attempt was made from Ukrainian territory to launch a missile strike against the Belgorod region using US-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles,” the Russian defense ministry said.
“These actions by the Kyiv regime, which is supported by Western curators, will be met with retaliation,” it added, saying all the missiles were shot down.
Kyiv’s use of the missile systems has infuriated the Kremlin, which has threatened to hit central Kyiv with a hypersonic ballistic missile in response to the strikes.
ATACMS missiles have a maximum range of 300 kilometers (190 miles), according to publicly available data.
US President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview published last month he was “very vehemently” opposed to Ukraine using the arms, which he said were “escalating” the conflict.
– Journalist killed –
In Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, a Ukrainian “kamikaze” drone killed a reporter from Russia’s Izvestia newspaper as he was travelling on a highway between two Russian-held cities, the paper said.
Alexander Martemyanov, who worked freelance for the paper, was returning from covering shelling in the Russian-held city of Gorlivka with colleagues when their car was hit, Russia’s state RIA news agency said.
A journalist from RIA and four other media workers were wounded in the attack, the agency added.
Both Kyiv and Moscow have accused each other of fatal attacks on civilians since the year began.
A Russian strike on a village in Ukraine’s northeast Kharkiv region earlier on Saturday killed a 74-year-old man, regional governor Oleg Synegubov said.
Moscow also struck a town in Ukraine’s northern Sumy region, destroying part of an apartment building and wounding seven including a two-year-old girl, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
In the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region, a 10-year-old boy was killed and his parents injured when a drone hit their car, the region’s Moscow-installed head Yevgeny Balitsky said.
Russia’s defence ministry meanwhile said on Saturday it had captured the Ukrainian village of Nadiia, one of the few settlements in the eastern Lugansk region still under Kyiv’s control.
Moscow advanced by almost 4,000 square kilometres (1,540 square miles) in Ukraine in 2024, according to an AFP analysis, as Kyiv’s army struggled with chronic manpower shortages and exhaustion.
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“These actions by the Kyiv regime, which is supported by Western curators, will be met with retaliation,” it added, saying all the missiles were shot down.”
Says the shithole that started this war in the first place and cannot carry on with it without significant help from china, iran, and north korea, and indirectly by india and corrupt Western companies.
Can anyone explain the difference between a retaliation and the usual brutal daily attacks by the cockroaches?
If all the missiles were shot down, why the tantrum? If this was the case, the orcs would be quite happy to see Ukraine wasting ATACMS.
That’s the best evidence that they are perpetual liars.
“US President-elect Donald Trump said in an interview published last month he was “very vehemently” opposed to Ukraine using the arms, which he said were “escalating” the conflict.”
Yet the putler-rimming arsehole is always silent when his little pal murders young Ukrainian women and children.
I wonder why that might be? Take a wild fucking guess.
Trump is not famous for intelligent statements.
A snapshot from his festering, Ukraine-hating brain on Feb 22, 2022:
“I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, ‘This is genius.’ Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine — Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful,” Trump said in a radio interview with “The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show.” “He used the word ‘independent’ and ‘we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.’ You gotta say that’s pretty savvy.”
He really said that!
And:
Trump and his pigshit-thick junior :
“Donald Trump Jr. has doubled down on his father’s campaign pledge to cut funding for Ukraine in its war effort against Russia.
The United States president-elect’s eldest son shared on Instagram a clip posted by former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin which read “POV [point of view]: You’re 38 days from losing your allowance” over a video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
On the campaign trail, Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance criticized the Biden administration for spending billions on military aid to Ukraine. In June, Trump called Zelenskyy “the greatest salesman of any politician that’s ever lived” in response to Kyiv’s push to secure more U.S. funding.”
Note also that DT Jr was sharing a post originating from Sarah Palin, who once supported Ukraine but has now transformed herself into a magaputler shithead.
That entire family has no principles and no integrity. What they blather today has no value tomorrow.
These elected shitheads are window dressing to me. It seems to me that their blabber is meant to test the waters and try to frame their leanings, after all they are poll-a-ticians. I have much faith that our underlining sane principles of most of congress, heads of dept, and others wont drive us off the cliff, even tho the driver is completly out of his mind on purple microdot.
“heads of dept”
That’s why trumpkov wants to replace them all with people who are totally unqualified for the job – people whose sole “qualification” is blind loyalty to trumpkov.
That’s frighteningly like mafia land’s regime, which is also filled with incompetent, yet loyal yesmen and yeswomen.
Ya, I know, your right, but I have to keep sane somehow – trying to think positive…