{"id":15195,"date":"2025-01-04T22:25:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T18:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/russia-vows-retaliation-after-saying-it-downed-eight-us-made-long-range-missiles\/"},"modified":"2025-01-04T22:25:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T18:55:30","slug":"russia-vows-retaliation-after-saying-it-downed-eight-us-made-long-range-missiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/russia-vows-retaliation-after-saying-it-downed-eight-us-made-long-range-missiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia vows retaliation after saying it downed eight US-made long-range missiles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5318420.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">Russia has vowed retaliation after claiming to have shot down eight\u00a0US-made ATACMS missiles\u00a0fired by Ukraine on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Moscow sees the use of such missiles, which have a range of up to 300 kilometers (186 miles), as a major escalation, CNN reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The country\u2019s air defenses shot down the eight ballistic missiles alongside 72 aircraft-type unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Russia\u2019s Ministry of Defense said. It added that \u201cthese actions by the Kyiv regime, which is supported by Western curators, will be met with retaliation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The statement said several drones were destroyed in the Leningrad region in the north-west and one in Kursk, where Ukraine launched a surprise attack late last summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The\u00a0outgoing US President Joe Biden\u00a0approved Kyiv\u2019s use of ATACMS in November \u2013 saying in part it was in response to Russia expanding the conflict by deploying North Korean troops.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Russian President Vladimir Putin\u00a0has threatened to respond to Ukrainian strikes using ATACMS with Russia\u2019s new nuclear-capable ballistic missile \u201cOreshnik.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Last month, Putin suggested that it could be fired at the capital Kyiv as a test of Western-supplied air defense systems.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The first and only launch of the experimental weapon targeted Ukraine\u2019s Dnipro region on the morning of November 21.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The Ukrainian drone attacks forced temporary restrictions to be introduced at an airport in St. Petersburg, Russian state media agency TASS reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The governor of Leningrad oblast, Aleksandr Drozdenko, said in a statement on Telegram that the \u201cnight and morning of January 4 were record-breaking in terms of the number of UAVs destroyed,\u201d with four shot down over his region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">A Ukrainian security official, Andrii Kovalenko, said a seaport in Leningrad was targeted, calling it an \u201cinstrument of economic and military survival for Russia in isolation.\u201d<br \/> \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/508288\/Russia-vows-retaliation-after-saying-it-downed-eight-US-made\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has vowed retaliation after claiming to have shot down eight\u00a0US-made ATACMS missiles\u00a0fired by Ukraine on Saturday morning. Moscow sees the use of such missiles, which have a range of up to 300 kilometers (186 miles), as a major escalation, CNN reported.\u00a0 The country\u2019s air defenses shot down the eight ballistic missiles alongside 72 aircraft-type &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,4952,228,1056],"class_list":["post-15195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-international","tag-retaliation","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}