Moscow (EFE).- Russia protested this Monday before the United States ambassador, Lynn Trace, about the use of ATACMS missiles with cluster bombs in the Ukrainian attack perpetrated on Sunday against the Crimean port of Sevastopol that left four civilians dead. .
“The United States (…) bears the same responsibility as the kyiv regime for this evil act,” denounced the Russian Foreign Ministry in a statement.
According to Russian diplomacy, the US “carries out a hybrid war against Russia and has become part of the conflict by supplying the Ukrainian Army with the most modern weapons, including ATACMS missiles with cluster bombs used against the population of Sevastopol ”.
He also denounced that “the choice of targets and the creation of flight missions (of the missiles) is carried out by US military specialists.”
Moscow announces response to attack
Foreign Affairs declared to the ambassador that “these actions by Washington, which are intended to encourage the pro-Nazi authorities in Ukraine to continue war actions until the last Ukrainian, by allowing them to attack Russian territory, will not go unpunished.”
“We will respond without fail,” warned Russian diplomacy.
This Sunday, Ukrainian forces launched five ATACMS missiles against Sevastopol, the base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, four of which were shot down by Russian air defenses.
The fifth deviated from its course, according to Defense, and exploded on the coast of the peninsula, killing four civilians and injuring more than 150.
According to Telegram channels, a missile exploded on a beach where a large number of people were resting on Sunday, taking advantage of the summer heat.
The Russian Defense Ministry immediately blamed Washington for the attack for supplying kyiv with the ATACMS missiles launched by the Ukrainian Army and authorizing their use against Russian territory.
No authorization to use long-range missiles
“Responsibility for this deliberate missile attack against the civilian population of Sevastopol lies first and foremost with Washington, which supplied these weapons to Ukraine, and also with the Kiev regime, from whose territory this attack was launched,” he said on Telegram.
The government of US President Joe Biden gave Ukraine permission at the end of May to attack targets on Russian territory using weapons provided by the United States, but only if they were military targets in the Russian border area near the region’s area. northeast of Kharkiv.
However, this authorization, as confirmed to EFE by a US official, does not extend to long-range missiles such as the Army Tactical Missile System known as ATACMS and used on Sunday in Sebastopol, according to Russian authorities.
