Russia has vowed retaliation after claiming to have shot down eight US- made ATACMS missiles fired by Ukraine on Saturday morning.
Moscow sees the use of such missiles, which have a range of up to 300 kilometers (186 miles), as a major escalation.
The country’s air defenses shot down the eight ballistic missiles alongside 72 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Russia’s Ministry of Defense said. It added that “these actions by the Kyiv regime, which is supported by Western curators, will be met with retaliation.”
The statement said several drones were destroyed in the Leningrad region in the north-west and one in Kursk, where Ukraine launched a surprise attack late last summer.
Poster Comment:
Russia had been hampered by bad weather. They have resumed dropping 1,100, 2,200 and 3,300 Glide bombs, about 110 a day. Russia makes 30 Oreshnik bombs a month. One Oreshnik bomb has 6 MIRVS with 6 submunitions for a total of 36 of the latter. The bomb digs 36 very big holes and flames them out at 7,232 degrees F turning everything into dust after melting the steel and the concrete.