{"id":12490,"date":"2024-11-19T21:53:25","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T16:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=12490"},"modified":"2024-11-19T21:53:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T16:08:25","slug":"russia-says-ukraine-fired-us-long-range-missiles-at-border-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/russia-says-ukraine-fired-us-long-range-missiles-at-border-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia says Ukraine fired US long-range missiles at border region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Russia&#8217;s military said Tuesday that Ukraine fired US-supplied long-range missiles at a military facility in the Bryansk border region, in what would be the first attack since Washington authorised the use of its weapons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At 03:25 am (0025 GMT), the enemy struck a site in the Bryansk region with six ballistic missiles. According to confirmed data, US-made ATACMS tactical missiles were used,&#8221; the defence ministry said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine had for months been demanding that Washington let it use the longer-range ATACMS missiles to hit sites on Russian territory.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has said the use of Western weapons to attack Russia&#8217;s internationally recognised territory would make the United States a direct participant in the conflict and pledged an &#8220;appropriate and palpable response&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, Russia&#8217;s defence ministry said five missiles were shot down by its air defences, while fragments from a sixth fell onto an unspecified &#8220;military facility&#8221;, causing a small fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There were no casualties or damage,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine&#8217;s foreign minister hailed on Monday the permission to use the missiles for strikes inside Russia as a potential &#8220;game changer&#8221; in the nearly three-year old conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia&#8217;s military said Tuesday that Ukraine fired US-supplied long-range missiles at a military facility in the Bryansk border region, in what would be the first attack since Washington authorised the use of its weapons. &#8220;At 03:25 am (0025 GMT), the enemy struck a site in the Bryansk region with six ballistic missiles. According to confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12492,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12490\/revisions\/12492"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}