Russia claims to have shot down eight US-made missiles, also makes new threat
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Saturday, January 4, 2025
Islamabad (UrduPoint News International/ Pakistan Point News - 11th Jan, 2025 ) According to reports received from Moscow on Saturday afternoon, January 4, the Russian Defense Ministry said today that eight missiles supplied by the United States to Kiev, which were fired by Ukrainian forces towards Russian territory, were shot down in the Belgorod border area on Friday.
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These American missiles can hit their targets up to a distance of 300 kilometers or 190 miles.
Permission granted by the Biden administration
The US administration led by President Joe Biden, whose term will end this month and the new President Donald Trump will come to power, had allowed Ukraine in the last months of last year to use US-supplied ATACMS-style tactical missiles for attacks inside Russian state territory.
Following this US authorization, Russia condemned it as a “further escalation” in the Russian-Ukrainian war that has been going on for almost three years.
Against this backdrop, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said today, “On Friday, January 3, Ukraine fired US-made operational tactical missiles at Russia in the Belgorod border region, but the attempt was thwarted by destroying these missiles in the air.”
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“The actions taken by the Kiev government, which are supported by its Western protectors, will be met with a proper response,” the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement.
According to the Russian government, it shot down all eight US ATACMS missiles fired by Ukraine.
It did not say exactly when and where this was done.
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The Russian Defense Ministry also said today that Moscow's military forces have captured the village of Nadiya in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, which is still under the control of the Kiev government. The Ukrainian region has few residential settlements, and this village is one of them.
The Ukrainian army is facing general exhaustion and a constant shortage of manpower in the war against Russia.
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This was largely possible because Russia managed to advance about 4,000 square kilometers (1,540 square miles) inside Ukraine during the recently ended year 2024, according to data and military assessments compiled by the French news agency AFP.
Why is Russia attacking the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk?
According to Reuters reports from the Ukrainian military leadership in Kiev, Russia has intensified its attacks on the Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk. This is because Moscow wants to seize this strategically important city and cut off the supply line of the Ukrainian army.
According to the Ukrainian military, the fall of this city, which is considered the center of land and rail communications in the eastern Donetsk region, into Russian hands could cause serious difficulties for the Ukrainian army on the eastern fronts.
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In addition, after the possible capture of Pokrovsk, Russia may also try to advance from Wuhan to the western front.
“Fierce fighting is ongoing on the roads leading to Pokrovsk, and the Russian army has launched 34 attacks on Ukrainian troops there over the past 24 hours, in an attempt to break through the Ukrainian defense line south of the city,” a spokesman for Ukraine’s Khortytsia Group of Forces told Ukrainian national TV.
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