{"id":7626,"date":"2024-11-19T22:41:24","date_gmt":"2024-11-19T19:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/ukraine-fires-us-missiles-on-russian-territory-putin-lowers-nuclear-threshold\/"},"modified":"2024-11-19T22:41:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-19T19:11:24","slug":"ukraine-fires-us-missiles-on-russian-territory-putin-lowers-nuclear-threshold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/ukraine-fires-us-missiles-on-russian-territory-putin-lowers-nuclear-threshold\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine fires US missiles on Russian territory, Putin lowers nuclear threshold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/5254862.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">Ukraine used US\u00a0ATACMS missiles\u00a0to strike Russian territory for the first time on Tuesday, Moscow said, in an attack regarded by Russia as a major escalation on the war&#8217;s 1,000th day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Russia said its forces shot down five of six missiles fired at a military facility in the Bryansk region, while debris of one hit the facility, causing no casualties or damage, Reuters reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Ukraine said it had struck a Russian arms depot around 110 km (70 miles) inside Russia and caused secondary explosions. It did not specify what weapons it had used.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">President Joe Biden gave approval just this week for Ukraine to use the medium-range US missiles for such attacks, which Moscow has described as an escalation that would make Washington a direct combatant in\u00a0the war\u00a0and prompt retaliation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday\u00a0formally lowered the threshold\u00a0for Russia\u2019s use of its nuclear weapons over Biden\u2019s decision. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Putin has previously warned the US and other NATO allies that allowing Ukraine to use Western-supplied longer-range weapons to hit Russian territory would mean that Russia and NATO are at war.<br \/> \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/506498\/Ukraine-fires-US-missiles-on-Russian-territory-Putin-lowers\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine used US\u00a0ATACMS missiles\u00a0to strike Russian territory for the first time on Tuesday, Moscow said, in an attack regarded by Russia as a major escalation on the war&#8217;s 1,000th day. Russia said its forces shot down five of six missiles fired at a military facility in the Bryansk region, while debris of one hit the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[28,228,1056,227],"class_list":["post-7626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-international","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626","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=7626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}