Over the past week, the Russian Armed Forces also launched 32 precision strikes with high-tech weapons and drones, destroying two Ukrainian Grom-2 ballistic missile launchers and a Neptune anti-ship missile launcher, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
On Thursday, a strike was carried out near the Odessa region port of Chernomorsk on a railway train carrying ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles that had arrived in Ukraine from Romania, pro-Russian resistance coordinator Sergei Lebedev told Sputnik.
“Chernomorsk was hit on November 28 … From additional information it became clear that the strike came to the train with military cargo… According to preliminary data, the train contained long-range ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles, which arrived by sea from the Romanian port of Constanta,” Lebedev said.
Pentagon Press Secretary Pat Ryder confirmed that the Biden administration has authorized Kiev to use long-range US-supplied missiles such as ATACMS to strike deep into Russian territory. He said that the attacks have been focused on Russia’s western Kursk region.
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Ukraine had struck targets in the Kursk and Bryansk regions on November 19 using ATACMS missiles and UK-supplied Storm Shadows. He also stated that Russia successfully test-fired an Oreshnik ballistic missile on November 21, hitting a Ukrainian defense industry complex in the city of Dnepropetrovsk.