Moscow vows retaliation for Ukraine strikes with US-made missiles

Moscow threatened to retaliate after claiming to have downed eight U.S.-manufactured missiles fired from Ukraine towards Russia’s southwestern Belgorod area.

“These actions by the Kyiv regime, which is supported by Western curators, might be met with retaliation,” the Russian protection ministry mentioned in an announcement on Telegram Saturday, with out specifying what countermeasures it supposed to take. Ukraine has not commented on the strike.

The Kremlin views using these long-range ATACMS missiles — that are equipped to Kyiv by the United States and may attain targets as much as 300 kilometres away — to hold out strikes deep inside Russian territory as a major escalation within the conflict.