Moscow says Ukraine fired US-supplied long range missiles into Russia
Newshour
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🗓️ 19 November 2024
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Moscow says Ukraine has launched American-supplied long-range missiles into the country, a day after Washington gave its permission for such attacks.
Also on the programme: we speak to the wife of one of the 45 pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong who have been given long jail terms; and, Gisèle Pelicot, the woman at the centre of france's mass rape trial, makes her final statement to the court.
(Photo: US Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) firing a missile into the East Sea during a South Korea-US joint missile drill in 2017. Credit: Getty Images, file photo)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour. It's coming to you live from the BBC World Service |
| 0:07.7 | Studios in central London. I'm Tim Franks. And we're going to begin with the news that broke |
| 0:12.6 | not long before we came on air. Russia saying that Ukraine has fired long-range US-supplied missiles |
| 0:18.9 | into the country. Just two days after the Biden administration changed its policy to allow Ukraine to use these weapons. |
| 0:26.8 | They're called attackams, army tactical missile systems, to hit targets deep inside Russia. |
| 0:33.4 | The Ukrainian military has said it did strike an ammunition depot in the Briansk region north of Ukraine. |
| 0:39.6 | It's about 100 kilometres inside Russia. |
| 0:41.6 | It hasn't said specifically what weapons it use. |
| 0:46.0 | But the New York Times website, citing U.S. and Ukrainian officials, says that they were indeed attackams. |
| 0:53.9 | What have we learned so far out of Moscow? |
| 0:56.7 | Here's our Russia editor, Steve Rosenberg. |
| 0:58.8 | I think it's too early to say. |
| 1:00.4 | All we have to go on right now is a short statement issued by the Russian Defence Ministry. |
| 1:05.4 | You've got it here. |
| 1:06.3 | Basically, talking about these six US-supplied attack-ams missiles |
| 1:10.8 | that Moscow says were launched |
| 1:12.8 | against the Briansk region, against a facility there, and saying that five of them were |
| 1:18.8 | intercepted, no casualties, according to the Russian Defence Ministry. Interestingly, |
| 1:24.4 | Russian state television led with the story in their news bulletin last hour, but didn't say very much about it. |
| 1:31.6 | And it will be interesting to see later today what the political reaction is. |
| 1:37.1 | If there's any from the Kremlin or from senior Russian politicians, how much they're going to make of this. |
| 1:43.8 | And it is something that will keep an eye on. |
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