Russia warns of ‘harsh retaliation’ after drone strikes
Russia has warned of tough retaliation against the backdrop of drone strikes on the capital Moscow and Crimea.
One drone on Monday struck close to the Russian Defense Ministry premises. A second drone targeted an area in the vicinity.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that a third “helicopter-type drone” which was not carrying explosives fell on a cemetery in a town outside Moscow.
Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry said 17 drones also attacked the Russian-controlled territory of Crimea overnight. The ministry said it had used anti-drone equipment and air defenses to bring them down.
“We regard what happened as yet another use of terrorist methods and intimidation of the civilian population by the military and political leadership of Ukraine,” the foreign ministry said of the drone attacks.
“The Russian Federation reserves the right to take harsh retaliatory measures.”
Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council who also formerly served as Russia’s president, said it was essential that Moscow broaden the range of targets it struck in Ukraine.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had already said on Sunday that Ukraine’s military would retaliate Russian missile strikes on the port city of Odessa.
Russia began its “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, 2022.
The objective was to defend the pro-Russian population in Donetsk and Luhansk, eastern Ukrainian regions, against what Moscow said was persecution by the government in Kiev.
Kiev and its Western allies accuse Moscow of seizing those territories by force. Nevertheless, the Ukrainian regions voted in separate referendums in favor of joining the Russian Federation.
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