11/20/2024

Russia Claims It Shot down U.S.-made ATACMS Missiles

It also issued a nuclear threat

On Tuesday, the Russian Defense Ministry said it defeated a Ukrainian ATACMS attack in the western Bryansk region, shortly before the Kremlin updated its nuclear weapons doctrine to allow for nuclear strikes in response to foreign ballistic missile attacks.

Two U.S. officials also confirmed to ABC News that Ukraine had for the first time fired ATACMS at targets in Russia.

Ukrainian forces fired six "ballistic missiles," the Russian Defense Ministry wrote on its official Telegram page, five of which were downed and the sixth damaged. "According to confirmed data, American-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles were used," it wrote.

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