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The transfer comes after U.S. President Joe Biden reversed his long-standing place and licensed Kyiv’s use of American-supplied long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russia final weekend, prompting Ukraine to make use of U.S.-manufactured Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMS, to strike Russia’s Bryansk area on Tuesday. Ukraine additionally reportedly fired British Storm Shadow missiles at targets inside Russia this week. Biden additionally reversed his place on giving Ukraine anti-personnel landmines.
Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh confirmed that Russia launched the experimental missile, saying throughout a press convention on Thursday that the “new kind of deadly functionality” is “of concern” to the U.S. Singh additionally mentioned Russia notified the U.S. shortly earlier than the assault.
Earlier within the day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had accused Moscow of firing an intercontinental ballistic missile into Ukraine, writing on social media that the transfer was a “clear and extreme escalation within the scale and brutality of this conflict,” and noting that the missile use was one more Russian escalation, after it deployed 1000’s of North Korean troops to serve alongside its personal in its conflict in opposition to Ukraine.
In his nightly handle, Zelenskyy mentioned Thursday that Russia’s resolution to deploy the missile was an indication of “how terrified” Moscow is of Ukraine.
