MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian troops attacked Ukrainian troops with long-range weapons on Friday in response to an attack on the Russian region of Rostov this week in which Ukraine used US- and British-launched missiles, the Russian Defense Ministry said. .
Russia said on Thursday that Ukraine launched six US-made ATACMs and four British-made Storm Shadow missiles in Russia's southern Rostov region a day earlier.
Ukrainian officials said a Russian missile attack on Friday killed one person and destroyed buildings in Kyiv after explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital.
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The Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement that it had struck the Ukrainian intelligence agency SBU, the Luch design Bureau in Kyiv, which it said was involved in the development of missiles, and the US-made Patriot anti-aircraft. missile system.
“The goals of the strike have been achieved. All goals have been achieved,” said the Ministry.
Reuters could not confirm the battlefield assertion.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Mark Trevelyan/Andrew Osborn)
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