Ukrainian forces carried retired a onslaught with U.S.-supplied ATACMS long-range missiles connected a people successful the borderline portion of Bryansk, Russia's Defense Ministry said in a connection connected Tuesday.
The statement, which Ukraine has not yet confirmed, comes conscionable days aft U.S. media reported that the White House authorized Kyiv to usage ATACMS to onslaught astatine targets wrong Russia's borders.
"Overnight, astatine 03:25 a.m. Moscow time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces struck a installation successful the Bryansk portion with six ATACMS ballistic missiles," the Defense Ministry said.
The ministry said its aerial defence systems intercepted 5 of the ATACMS missiles, portion 1 was damaged.
"Missile fragments fell connected the method country of a subject installation and started a fire. The occurrence has already been extinguished," the ministry said. It did not study immoderate casualties oregon spot damage.
Earlier connected Tuesday, the RBC Ukraine quality website, citing an anonymous root successful the Ukrainian military, reported that Kyiv utilized ATACMS to people a facility in the Bryansk portion municipality of Karachev.
Unverified videos posted connected societal media purportedly showed the aftermath of that attack, with a ample fireball seen lighting up the nighttime entity successful the distance.
According to U.S. media reports, the White House has constricted Kyiv's usage of ATACMS missiles to defending Ukrainian troops successful Russia's Kursk region, wherever Moscow is reportedly mounting a counteroffensive with North Korea troops.
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