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SECURITY: Ukrainian Media-Ukraine Makes 1st ATACMS Strike On Russia

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Ukrainian outlet Censor.net is reporting that Ukraine's armed forces have made their first long-range ATACMS missile strike inside Russia since US President Joe Biden approved their use against the territory of the Russian Federation. The report claims that an arsenal near to the city of Karachev in the Bryansk region was hit. There has been no official comment from Ukrainian armed forces on the claim. RBC Ukraine reports comments from an unnamed military source: "Indeed, ATACMS was used for the first time to strike the territory of the Russian Federation. The strike was carried out on a facility in the Bryansk region, it was successfully destroyed,"

  • If confirmed, this would be a breach of Russia's updated nuclear doctrine published earlier today (see 'RUSSIA: Putin Updates Nuclear Text, Retaliation If Russia Hit By LR Missiles' 0854GMT).
  • Hitting Bryansk would appear to be outside the scope of what the US had envisaged for Ukrainian long-range missile strikes, with Russian and North Korean troops in the Kursk oblast seen as the primary target of any such attack. 
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Ukrainian outlet Censor.net is reporting that Ukraine's armed forces have made their first long-range ATACMS missile strike inside Russia since US President Joe Biden approved their use against the territory of the Russian Federation. The report claims that an arsenal near to the city of Karachev in the Bryansk region was hit. There has been no official comment from Ukrainian armed forces on the claim. RBC Ukraine reports comments from an unnamed military source: "Indeed, ATACMS was used for the first time to strike the territory of the Russian Federation. The strike was carried out on a facility in the Bryansk region, it was successfully destroyed,"

  • If confirmed, this would be a breach of Russia's updated nuclear doctrine published earlier today (see 'RUSSIA: Putin Updates Nuclear Text, Retaliation If Russia Hit By LR Missiles' 0854GMT).
  • Hitting Bryansk would appear to be outside the scope of what the US had envisaged for Ukrainian long-range missile strikes, with Russian and North Korean troops in the Kursk oblast seen as the primary target of any such attack.