Targets for Ukrainian ATACMS missiles are chosen on the basis of American satellite data, the Russian Defense Ministry has said
Washington bears responsibility for the latest Ukrainian missile strike on the city of Sevastopol in Russia’s Crimea, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday. The attack involving US-supplied ATACMS missiles killed at least three people, including two children, and left more than 120 injured, according to authorities.
The Ukrainian military launched five ATACMS long-range missiles armed with highly controversial cluster warheads at the Crimean Peninsula earlier on Sunday, the ministry said. Four were destroyed by Russian air defenses. One missile was hit but veered off course and detonated over the Black Sea port city of Sevastopol. Falling fragments of its cluster munition warhead led to numerous civilian casualties, including almost 30 children.
“All the flight tasks for the… ATACMS missiles are assigned by American specialists on the basis of their own US satellite intelligence data,” the Defense Ministry said. “Therefore, responsibility for the deliberate missile strike on civilians in Sevastopol lies primarily with Washington, which supplied these weapons to Ukraine, as well as the Kiev regime, from whose territory this attack was launched.”
The Russian military added that these actions will not be “left unanswered.”
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