{"id":130668,"date":"2024-11-27T13:35:50","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T06:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=130668"},"modified":"2024-11-27T13:35:50","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T06:35:50","slug":"key-russian-air-defence-system-hit-in-ukraine-atacms-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=130668","title":{"rendered":"Key Russian air defence system hit in Ukraine Atacms strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Russia has made a rare admission, saying that a key air defence system and an air base in the Kursk region were hit by Ukraine with US-supplied Atacms missiles.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The defence ministry statement, which threatened retaliation, came a day after <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c79z0vje935o\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">Ukraine said it had hit targets in the region<!-- --><\/a>.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Meanwhile Ukraine&#8217;s air force said Russia launched a record 188 drones in a single attack on Monday night, damaging critical infrastructure.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Tensions have been high since the US reportedly allowed Ukraine to use Atacms missiles on targets inside Russia last week, in response to Russia deploying North Korean troops.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The week culminated with Russia&#8217;s use of <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvg07zw9vj1o\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">the powerful new intermediate-range Oreshnik<!-- --><\/a> ballistic missile on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The first reported strikes by Atacms on Russian territory were <!-- --><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c0mzjm7knw7o\" class=\"sc-c9299ecf-0 bZUiKB\" rel=\"noopener\">reported on Tuesday<!-- --><\/a>, when Russia said falling fragments caused a fire at a military facility.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">But Monday&#8217;s strike on an S-400 air-defence missile battalion at Lotarevka northwest of Kursk on Saturday could be seen as more serious. The S-400 is considered the closest Russian equivalent of the US Patriot missile system.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Defence Ministry said three of the five Atacms missiles were shot down but two reached the target, damaging a radar system and causing casualties.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It also said a second strike on Monday on the Khalino (Kursk East) air base caused &#8220;insignificant damage&#8221; after one of the eight missiles fired by Ukraine got through air defences.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">&#8220;The Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation is in control of the situation and retaliatory measures are being prepared,&#8221; the statement added.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It shared photos of what it said was debris from the air base attack.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Russian military bloggers reported the Khalino attack on Monday.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Also footage posted to social media on Monday &#8211; which documented bright flashes in the sky above the border region &#8211; claimed to show the moment Atacms missiles were intercepted by Russian air defences elsewhere in the Kursk region. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">BBC Verify corroborated that the footage was genuine and filmed in Kursk city, but could not establish whether the US-supplied missiles were the source of the flashes.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">A record 188 drones and four Iskander missiles attacked Ukraine overnight, the country&#8217;s air force said on Tuesday.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">It said 76 of them had been shot down while another 95 had been &#8220;lost track of&#8221;, and that critical infrastructure and residential buildings had been hit.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Some 70% of the power of the western Ternopil region was cut, its governor said.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Meanwhile the exiled Russian investigative news website Agentstvo has claimed that Ukraine is now losing territory at the fastest rate since the early days of the full-scale invasion.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">However, Russian gains in eastern Ukraine are still extremely slow compared to the rapid advances of February and March 2022, when its forces came close to the capital Kyiv.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cr4ly626evlo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia has made a rare admission, saying that a key air defence system and an air base in the Kursk region were hit by Ukraine with US-supplied Atacms missiles. 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