A Russian missile attack killed two civilians in an apartment building in southern Ukraine on Wednesday, local authorities said, as President Vladimir Putin dismissed the importance of a new U.S.-supplied weapon that Kyiv used to execute one of the most damaging attacks on the Kremlin’s air assets since the start of the war.

Putin told reporters that Russia “will be able to repel” further attacks by the U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System, known as ATACMS.

Ukraine claimed it used those missiles to destroy nine Russian helicopters, as well as ammunition, an air defense system and other assets at two airfields in Russia-occupied regions on Tuesday.

  • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    21 year ago

    It would be awesome to see Putin giving some sort of address talking about how some weapon doesn’t pose a threat and then in the background some military asset gets destroyed during the address.

    Assuming he’s on the same side of the Urals as Ukraine. Maybe he’s playing it safe and is staying in the part of Russia that’s in Palin’s backyard.