Russia threatens Ukraine with retaliation for ATACMS attacks

Today’s threat Saturday (4.1.25) retaliation” against Ukraine, after the shootings yesterday, Friday according to Moscow, American ATACMS, attack presented by the Kremlin as a “red line” in the war. “These actions of the Kiev regime, supported by its Western guardians, will be the subject of retaliation,” Russia warns of Ukrainian attacks with ATACMS missiles. CORVERSE In recent weeks, Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to order his army to hit the city centre of Kiev in response to Ukrainian attacks with American ATACMS or with British Storm Shadow, however, for the time being, to have implemented his threats. Earlier today, the Russian army announced that it intercepted during this attack eight ATACMS missiles, which targeted the Russian Belgorod district, at the border with Ukraine and “72 drones”. However, Moscow’s forces did not clarify whether this Ukrainian attack caused or caused material damage. ADVERSE In November, the government of outgoing US President Joe Biden had approved the use of such missiles from Kiev, although for a long time it opposed, after development, according to the West and Ukraine, thousands of North Korean soldiers to support Russian troops. Since then, Kiev has conducted a series of attacks with the help of ATACMS missiles, as with British Storm Shadow. Russia responded by first launching an experimental supersonic weapon, the “Orechnik”, promising systematically “one response” to any Ukrainian attack of this kind against its territory. For his part, U.S. elected president Donald Trump, whose return to the White House is expected on January 20th, said, in mid-December, that he is “very opposed” to the use by the Ukrainian Army of American ATACMS missiles, talking about a “degradation” of the war. Meanwhile, near the border with Ukraine, two people were injured by a Ukrainian drone attack in the city of Sebekino, according to Russian governor Belgorod Viacheslav Gladkov. On the front, a Ukrainian blow caused at least 10 people to be injured in the city of Horivka, an area that Moscow has occupied in eastern Ukraine, according to its mayor Ivan Prikodko. Further north, the Russian army announced today that it captured the small Nadiah community, in the Ukrainian region of Luhansk. Four people were injured in a Russian attack shame me in the southern part, according to Hersona commander Roman Brotsko.