Ukraine repeatedly attacked deep into Russian territory with long-range weapons.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine's recent attacks on Russia's Bryansk and Kursk provinces were not the first time Kiev had used long-range weapons to strike at Russian territory.
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On November 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Ukraine had attacked targets in the Kursk and Bryansk regions on November 19, using US ATACMS long-range missiles and British Storm Shadow long-range missiles.
Commenting on the Russian President's speech, Mr. Zelensky said that President Putin was wrong when he said that "Ukraine's use of long-range weapons is a new step."
“This is not the first time we have used these weapons,” Mr. Zelensky wrote on Telegram on November 21. However, he did not specify which weapons were used and when. The long-range ATACMS, Storm Shadow and Scalp missiles have previously been used by the Ukrainian armed forces to attack Crimea, the self-proclaimed Luhansk and Donetsk People’s Republics, and the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions.
At the same time, President Zelensky complained about the lack of response from Western partners to Russia's attack on a defense industrial zone in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. "The world must react to this. There is no strong reaction from the world... He [Putin] is testing you, dear partners... If there is no tough reaction to Russia's actions, Moscow will see that it can do this," Zelensky added.
Earlier in the day, President Putin announced that Russia had successfully tested the new Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile in response to Ukraine's use of US and British weapons.
