The large-scale Russian strike on Ukraine last night was a response to Ukrainian attacks against Russia with Western weapons, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on Thursday. According to him, Moscow used 90 missiles and 100 drones, TASR reports based on reports from the AFP and Reuters agencies.
“It was a response to the ongoing attacks on our territory by ATACMS missiles,” Putin said in a televised statement during his visit to Kazakhstan, where he is participating in a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) Council. The head of the Kremlin repeated that Russia will not let long-range weapon attacks on its territory go unanswered. According to him, the “decision-making centers” in Kyiv could also be among the targets of Russian strikes in Ukraine.
In addition, Putin claimed that the production of advanced missile systems in Russia exceeds ten times that of NATO countries, and Moscow plans to increase it even more. Russian attacks have not yet hit government buildings in the Ukrainian capital, Reuters wrote. Kyiv is well protected by air defenses, but according to Putin, the Oresnik hypersonic missile cannot be shot down. Russia launched it for the first time over the Ukrainian city of Dnipro last week.
