UKRAINE has fired its first long-range missile at Russia striking a border region inside the country, it has been claimed.
For the first time ever embattled Kyiv reportedly aimed an American-made ATACMS ballistic rocket at Russian soil – on the 1,000th day of Vladimir Putin’s bloody and illegal war.
Stock image of a US-made ATACMS missile
The missile attack by Ukrainian armed forces reportedly struck a border region inside Russia, according to RBC Ukraine who cited a military source.
It came just before snarling tyrant Putin gave the green light for a fresh nuke doctrine – threatening to use nuclear weapons against the West if Ukraine were to fires long-range missiles.
He was left raging when US President Joe Biden finally approved use of the far-reaching rockets by Ukraine on Sunday.
Putin’s propaganda mouthpiece Dmitry Peskov swore on Tuesday that the use of Western non-nuclear missiles by Ukraine’s armies could spark a nuclear response.
Russia has issued countless similar threats in the past – invoking fears of possible nuclear escalation in the West.
But now the stakes have been kicked up a notch – with the Kremlin officially putting a nuclear retaliation on the table in an updated doctrine.
Russia is claiming the move has crossed a red line – marking a sign of war from the West as they move to support embattled Ukraine.
Peskov said the new policy “concerns the fact that the Russian Federation reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression with the use of conventional weapons against it”.
When asked if the new policy means Russia views long-range missile firing as an attack by a non-nuclear state (Ukraine) with the support of a nuclear state (US) – and provokes the possibility of Russia using nukes in response – Peskov said “Yes, that is what is being discussed”.
The US on Sunday approved a decision that allows Ukraine to fire some American ATACMS rockets inside Russia.
It followed “one of the largest” air attacks of the Ukraine war so far with 120 missiles and 90 drones fired by Russia.
North Korea also recently sent over ten thousand soldiers to allied Russia to help Putin take back land in Kursk – infiltrated by Ukraine in August.
It puts into play Britain’s Storm Shadow and France’s SCALP missiles – ramping up pressure for Ukraine’s other Western allies to follow the US lead.
Andrey Gurulev, reservist Russian army general, MP and pro-Putin TV propagandist, warned of a full-scale nuclear strike on Britain.
“There are individual targets that can be hit with….demonstrative warning strikes,” he said.
“The first candidate to get a nuclear bludgeon….is the UK.”
He also declared “if anyone has the urge to launch ATACMS, SCALP, Storm Shadow missiles….there will be essentially nothing left of America trying to pull us into escalation.”
As the world marks 1,00 days of war in Ukraine on Tuesday, Putin’s puppet Vasily Nebenzya told the Security Council the use of Western missiles in Russia amounted to “suicidal strikes”.
He urged a rethink from Britain and France.
“Perhaps Joe Biden himself, for many reasons, has nothing to lose,” he said.
“But the short-sightedness of the British and French leadership, which are rushing to play along with the outgoing administration and dragging not only their countries but the whole of Europe into a full-scale escalation with extremely serious consequences, is striking.
“This is exactly what our former Western partners should think about before it is too late.”
Another senior propagandist – Putin’s TV mouthpiece Dmitry Kiselyov – said US, British and French military officers would do the actual targeting of the missiles, which brought them into the war.
He asked: “How will Russia respond? The answer could be anything. Anything.
“It is not for nothing that our nuclear doctrine has been adjusted.
“As President Putin has repeatedly emphasised, missile strikes deep into Russian territory will change the nature of the conflict.
“Its very essence will become a radical escalation.
“After all, the United States, Britain and France will be directly at war with Russia, with all the consequences that entails.
“For their own territories and those who inhabit these territories.
“As for the inhabitants of Ukraine, who live in the neighbourhood of airfields where F-16s are based, they better move far away from them.”
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