Putin says Russia launched 100 missiles and 466 UAVs at targets in Ukraine in two days

Over the past two days, Russia has launched 100 missiles and 466 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at facilities in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin said this on Thursday, November 28, at a session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Astana.

The head of state said that Moscow launched a massive strike at night, during which 90 missiles and 100 drones were fired. As a result, 17 military and industrial facilities were hit.

The Russian leader emphasized that all these strikes were responses to the US ballistic missile attacks by Kiev.

"I will repeat once again: these strikes from our side also took place in response to the incessant strikes on Russian territory by US ATACMS missiles," he said.

Putin added that military facilities, defense industry enterprises and control centers in Kiev could become new targets for the strikes.

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On November 21, the Russian president said that Ukraine had used Western long-range weapons against the Russian state, causing the regional conflict to acquire elements of a global one. He also said that one of Russia's newest medium-range missile systems, the Oreshnik ballistic missile, had been tested under combat conditions.

Before that, on November 19, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the S-400 SAM and Pantsir SAM systems in the Bryansk region shot down five ATACMS missiles fired by the AFU and damaged another one. The wreckage of the latter fell on the territory of a military facility, without casualties or damage.

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