Kiev forces would carry out the first attack against Russia using American missiles after the authorization officially granted by Washington. This was reported by unofficial Russian sources, specifying that an anti-aircraft defense system in the border region of Belgorod was hit. This news comes on the day Moscow warned the United States against making “fatal” mistakes in Ukraine.
According to the Russian Telegram channel of military experts Dva Majora, which has over 700,000 subscribers, American Himars missiles hit a station deploying S-300 and S-400 missiles. The same source added that no casualties were reported among Moscow’s soldiers. The channel also posted some photographs showing military vehicles on fire and a column of smoke rising into the sky. Another Russian channel, Astra, wrote that the attack damaged a base for troops and a storage area for heavy weapons in the Korochanskiy district, also in the Belgorod region.
News not confirmed by the authorities in Moscow nor by those in Kiev. Previously, however, the governor of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, had said that yesterday one person had died and three others had been injured in the explosion of an ammunition depot in the Korochansky district, but he had not specified the causes. The warning to the United States about “calculation errors that could have fatal consequences” was instead launched by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Serghei Ryabkov, who denounced an “irresponsible” attitude on the part of the Americans. “They have given Kiev carte blanche” and “they are doing nothing to stop the dangerous provocative actions of their servants”, thundered the deputy minister, warning that “there will certainly be a price to pay for the United States”.
The US has made it clear that for now the missiles supplied to Kiev can be used to strike Russian territory only with the aim of countering the advance of Moscow’s troops in the Kharkiv region. But Russia fears that they could also be used to bomb its strategic defense system, after the Ukrainians tried to attack two radars using drones in recent days. American government sources, cited by the Washington Post, have also expressed concern about these attacks, stating that Moscow could perceive them as threats to its “strategic deterrence capabilities”, with the risk that mutual trust between the USA and Russia will be altered in nuclear weapons matters. Analysts quoted by the American newspaper have, among other things, underlined that one of the targeted radars, in the Orenburg region, is located very far from Ukraine, on the south-eastern borders of European Russian territory, and serves, among other things, to prevent possible threats from China.
“We must be very careful, it is not a game, we are on the razor’s edge”, warned Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, reiterating Italy’s position against the use of its weapons sent to Ukraine for attacks on Russian territory. “We are working to defend the independence of Ukraine and we are working for peace, focusing above all on diplomacy”, underlined the head of the Farnesina, who in recent days has nevertheless opened up the possibility of sending a second Samp-T system to defense of the attacked country. China has meanwhile rejected the accusations made by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky of “sabotaging the peace summit” scheduled in Lucerne on 15 and 16 June by pressuring other countries not to participate.
“The use of political force is not the style of Chinese diplomacy,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning. Zelensky had made his accusations from Singapore, a stop on his ongoing tour of the Far East to try to gather support for the conference, which today took him to the Philippines. Presidential spokesman Sergei Nikiforov confirmed that Zelensky will attend the G7 summit in Italy, either in person or online. While the White House has made Biden’s forfeit to Switzerland official: Washington will still send a heavy delegation led by Vice President Kamala Harris and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. Ukrainian authorities have meanwhile reported three people killed, including a 12-year-old child, and three wounded in new Russian bombings in the last 24 hours in the Donetsk and Kharkiv regions.
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