24 June 2024

Kremlin warns U.S. of ‘Consequences’ : Supplying Lethal Longer-Range Weapons on Russian Targets. . .Calling them Direct Participants in 2-year Conflict

Russia said the strike on Sunday was carried out with a US-supplied ATACMS missile loaded with a cluster warhead.


Moscow has increasingly blasted Washington and Kyiv’s Western backers for supplying weapons to be fired on Russian targets, calling them direct participants in the two-year conflict.

Kremlin warns US of ‘consequences’ after alleged Ukrainian strike on Crimea

The Kremlin on Monday warned the United States of “consequences” and summoned its ambassador after Moscow said a Ukrainian strike with a US missile on Crimea killed four people.
Issued on: 24/06/2024 - 15:07

A woman visits a makeshift memorial to victims of a shelling, which Russian authorities say was a Ukrainian missile strike, in Sevastopol, Crimea on June 24, 2024.
A woman visits a makeshift memorial to victims of a shelling, which Russian authorities say was a Ukrainian missile strike, in Sevastopol, Crimea on June 24, 2024. © Alexey Pavlishak, Reuters

Putin threatens to expand the war to Western strategic targets – but can he deliver?

Russia said 82 people including 27 children were hospitalised with injuries from the strike.
Health Minister Mikhail Murashko was quoted by TASS news agency as saying on Monday that 14 of the injured were in a serious condition.
Russia summons US ambassador, warns of 'consequences' after missile strike  | 24 News HD

At a meeting with international news agencies including AFP this month, Putin criticized the West’s delivery of long-range weapons to Ukraine.
“Why don’t we have the right to supply weapons of the same class to regions of the world where there will be strikes on sensitive facilities of those (Western) countries?” Putin said.
“That is, the response can be asymmetric. We will think about it,” he told reporters.
  • Peskov also referred back to comments by Putin that target data for Ukrainian strikes was being provided by Western countries.
Russia unilaterally annexed Crimea in 2014.

  • Andriy Yermak, the head of the Ukrainian president’s office, said on Monday: “Crimea is Ukraine.”
  • “Russia must leave the peninsula. 
  • Their army and military objects there must cease to exist,” he said on social media.
A senior aide to the Ukrainian president, Mykhailo Podolyak, also suggested that Crimea was a legitimate military target.
“Crimea is also a large military camp and warehouse, with hundreds of direct military targets, which the Russians are cynically trying to hide and cover up with their own civilians,” he said.

Russia has been launching deadly strikes against Ukraine on a daily basis since it began its campaign in February 2022.
At least 51 civilians killed in Russian missile strike on village in  eastern Ukraine, officials say - ABC News
Ukraine says 551 children have been killed and 1,396 injured since the start of the assault.

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