MOSCOW: Moscow\u2019s military on Tuesday pledged a response to fresh Ukrainian air attacks inside Russia using US-supplied ATACMS missiles.
\nUkraine firing the long-range missiles into Russia for the first time last week prompted a furious reaction from Moscow.
\nRussia\u2019s defense ministry on Tuesday said Ukraine had carried out fresh strikes \u2014 on November 23 and 25 \u2014 using ATACMS.
\n\u201cRetaliatory actions are being prepared,\u201d it said in a post on Telegram, without elaborating.
\nThe United States gave Ukraine permission to use the weapons to hit Russian territory earlier this month after months of requests from Kyiv.
\nIn a rare admission, Russia said the fresh strikes had caused damage to military hardware and wounded some of its personnel on the ground.
\nA strike on the Kursk Vostochny air base wounded two servicemen, the defense ministry said, while a strike on an air defense battery damaged a radar system and also caused \u201ccasualties.\u201d
\nIt said three of the five missiles fired in the first strike were shot down, while seven of the eight used in the second were destroyed.
\nMoscow rarely provides such specific details on Ukrainian aerial attacks and almost never admits missiles have reached their intended target.
\nThe defense ministry also posted photos of what it said were the missile fragments, showing large casings with English-language inscriptions on the side.
\nAFP was unable to immediately verify the images.
\nThe strikes come with tensions having ratched up dramatically in the near three-year conflict over the last few weeks.
\nPutin last week signed a decree lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, days before launching the nuclear-capable hypersonic Oreshnik missile at Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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