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The US embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, has closed amid fears of a potential significant air attack from Russia. Photo / AFP
Russia warned on Tuesday it would respond after Ukraine fired longer-range US missiles at its territory – a first in the nearly three-year war.
A senior Ukrainian official told AFP a strike on Russia’s Bryansk region on Tuesday “was carried out by ATACMS missiles” – a reference to the US-supplied Army Tactical Missile System.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the attack showed Western countries wanted to “escalate” the conflict.
“We will be taking this as a qualitatively new phase of the Western war against Russia. And we will react accordingly,” Lavrov told a press conference at the G20 summit in Brazil.
