Unofficial reports of specified permission, which the Ukrainian side has long sought, appeared in the Western press on November 17. As speculated, this was an answer to the Russian deployment in the Kursk region of the North Korean troops. Therefore, the mark of the missiles would be this region, and the intent of the consent would be to discourage the Kremlin's ally from Pyongyang to participate in the war.
On November 18, the U.S. authorisation to usage rockets up to 300 km has been confirmed by the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell, and only a day later – without giving details – Brian A. Nichols, advisor to the Secretary of State in the administration of outgoing president Joe Biden.
There are no casualties and no damage.
But the Ukrainians did not intend to wait either for authoritative messages or for their authoritative interpretations. Already on the night of 18 to 19 November, they attacked a Russian ammunition depot close the border of Karaczew 130 km away. They did not uncover what kind of weapon, but they were American ballistic missiles ATACMS and were to be six of them, as admitted by the Russian Ministry of Defence. At the same time, 5 were shot down and 1 damaged.
– There are no casualties and no damage. – calmed the Russian Ministry of Defence in the release. Despite these assurances throughout the cross-border belt of Russia, she was expected to panic. Not only due to the fact that the Reuter Agency (referring to sources in the US) reported that there were 8 missiles and only 2 were knocked down. besides for this reason, Karachev was lying in the brian circuit alternatively than in the Kursk one, which, as was disputed, was to be a possible mark of the attacks. The ATACMS scope includes not only Kursk and Briansk themselves, but besides another capitals of Russian regions: Rostov over Don, Krasnodar, Smolensk, Julyk, Eagle, Voronezh. And as the independent Worstka portal reported, these disturbing news “in the most animated way” was reacted in the Vorone region. besides bordering Ukraine, but so far not as badly affected by war as neighbouring regions – Bielgorod and kursy.
Two local officials in a conversation with Wirstka said that he was sending his colleagues "a map with rocket fire beam". 1 of them first assessed the situation as ‘complete d*pa’ and even considered that ‘you request to pack your things and take your household elsewhere’. However, after half an hr he began to discuss the situation more calmly, starting to discuss possible targets of the Ukrainian armed forces, we read in the account.
Russia responded to the attack
And there could be quite a few them. The scope of Storm Shadows, or British maneuvering missiles, on which the usage with the ATACMS was to get the approval of the Kievs, can be almost twice as large: depending on the modifications, they can destruct targets up to 560 km. And their Ukrainians utilized them almost immediately after ATACMS – not yet utilizing the full potential... On 20 November, they hit them in the course circuit – the facilities located in Marjino, 40 km from the border. The Ukrainian portal Defence Express assumes that the mark was most likely owned by the administration of the Russian president of the sanatorium, where he could now home a military command post.
The Kremlin itself responded to the latest gift from "uncle Joe" to the Ukrainians, approved by Vladimir Putin on 19 November by a renewed atomic doctrine of Russia, treating aggression against it "from a non-nuclear state, with or with the support of a atomic state, as a common aggression". And although TV's propaganda programs immediately began to proclaim that "the US, England and France went straight into war", and to win that from trying to escalate the conflict of America "there will be nothing," independent experts remind that Moscow has long been reaching for this bogeyman – all time Ukraine and the West cross the designated "red lines".
– Of course the Kremlin would like to strike specified a blow – did not uncertainty the Russian political scientist Ivan Preobrazenski has lived in the Czech Republic for 10 years. – But he must have a 100% warrant that there will be no answer. The Kremlin is afraid of retaliating. And if there's at least a 5 percent probability of it happening, nothing will happen..
