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Ukraine fired six American-supplied ATACMS ballistic missiles at Russia’s Bryansk region, Moscow said Tuesday, in what would be Kyiv’s first use of the weapons inside Russia in 1,000 days of war.
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a press conference at the G20 summit in Brazil that Russia “will be taking this as a qualitatively new phase of the Western war against Russia”, adding that Moscow will “react accordingly”. Follow our liveblog for all the latest developments on Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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The Pentagon will send Ukraine at least $275 million in new weapons, US officials said Tuesday, as the Biden administration rushes to do as much as it can to help Kyiv fight back against Russia in the remaining two months before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
The latest tranche of weapons comes as worries grow about an escalation in the conflict, with both sides pushing to gain any advantage that they can exploit if Trump demands a quick end to the war – as he has vowed to do.
Russia warned on Tuesday that it would respond after Ukraine fired longer-range US missiles at its territory for the first time, as President Vladimir Putin issued a nuclear threat on the 1,000th day of the war.
A senior official told AFP that a strike on Russia’s Bryansk region earlier on Tuesday “was carried out by ATACMS missiles” – a reference to the US-supplied Army Tactical Missile System.
Speaking 1,000 days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the attack showed Western countries wanted to “escalate” the conflict.
“We will be taking this as a qualitatively new phase of the Western war against Russia. And we will react accordingly,” Lavrov told a press conference at the G20 summit in Brazil.
