KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ministry of Defense of Russia said on Tuesday that Ukraine fired six ATACM missiles made in the United States at the Russian region of Bryansk. In the statement released by Russian agencies, they reported that the Army shot down five of them and damaged one more.
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The fragments fell on the grounds of an unspecified military installation, the ministry said. The debris caused a fire, but did not cause any damage or casualties, they claimed.
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The announcement came shortly after Washington lifted restrictions on Ukraine to use longer-range missiles manufactured in the United States to attack Russia.
Ukraine did not immediately confirm the use of ATACM projectiles in an attack on Bryansk.
Hours before this Tuesday, the General Staff of Ukraine said that the Ukrainian army had attacked the arsenal of Logistics Support Center 1046 in the Karachev area, in the Russian region of Bryansk.
The General Staff stated that multiple explosions and detonations were heard in the target area.
"The destruction of ammunition depots for the Russian occupying forces, with the aim of ending Russian armed aggression against Ukraine, will continue," the statement said.
Consequences of the Russian attack on Ukraine
The third Russian attack in three days on a civilian residential area in Ukraine killed at least 12 people, including a child, officials reported on Tuesday, as the war reached its 1,000th day.
Ukraine has suffered repeated impacts from Russian drones and missiles, and on the battlefield is under severe Russian pressure at various points along the approximately 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) of the front line, where its army is trying to face a larger adversary.
On Sunday, a Russian ballistic missile with cluster munitions hit a residential area in Sumy in northern Ukraine, killing 11 people and injuring 84 others.
On Monday, at least 10 people died and 43 were injured in a Russian missile bombing that caused fires in apartments in the southern port of Odesa.
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, stated that the series of air strikes demonstrated that the Russian president is not interested in ending the war: “”Each new attack by Russia only confirms Putin’s true intentions. He wants the war to continue. Peace talks do not interest him. We must force Russia to a just peace by force.”.