US-Made Missiles Strike Deep Inside Russia Hours After Biden Sends Another $20 Billion to Ukraine

In a dramatic escalation of the Ukraine conflict, Moscow announced Wednesday that six US-made ATACMS ballistic missiles were launched against a Russian airfield in the Black Sea port city of Taganrog.

The escalation came hours after Biden regime transferred another $20 billion loan to Ukraine via the World Bank to prolong the war.

Russian defense officials assert the missiles were intercepted and neutralized before impact, crediting a combination of Pantsir air defense systems and electronic warfare.

The incident marks one of the most direct and provocative uses of Western-supplied weaponry against Russia’s sovereign territory, heightening tensions in the already volatile region.

“Missile fragments caused injuries among personnel. There was no destruction, but two buildings in the airfield’s technical area and three military vehicles sustained minor shrapnel damage. Civilian vehicles in a nearby parking lot were also damaged,” the Russian Defense Ministry statement said.

Apparently this damage occurred through “falling fragments of the missiles” according to the ministry, which also vowed that retaliation is coming for the strike.

“This attack by Western long-range weapons will not go unanswered, and appropriate measures will be taken,” it added, but without specifying anything further.

It appears that at least other drones or missiles which were part of the broader assault made it through Russian aerial defenses:

In the early hours of Wednesday, Dec.11, multiple explosions shook the city of Taganrog in Russia’s Rostov region, regional governor Yuri Slyusar reported, describing the attack as a “missile strike.”

The attack, reported around 4:20 a.m., triggered air defense systems and caused at least ten explosions, local residents told the Shot Telegram channel. Eyewitnesses suggested the target might have been a military airfield, according to CHEKA-OGPU Telegram channel.

It was only in September that President Vladimir Putin declared new ‘red lines’ for the conflict, asserting that any long-range attack on Russia with West-supplied missiles would be viewed as the as the “direct participation” of NATO countries in the war in Ukraine.

“It would substantially change the very essence, the nature of the conflict,” he said at the time, shortly after Washington finally approved its change in policy to allow such attacks. “This will mean that Nato countries, the USA and European states, are fighting with Russia.”

With the ATACMS and other Western systems, NATO personnel actually have to assist directly with satellite and targeting data, which includes being able to “input flight missions into these missile systems” – as Putin described earlier.

Putin could now order a major attack on Kiev, or command and control centers of Ukraine’s armed forces. Russia has also been targeting locations where it’s believed that Western munitions are held. 

All of this will no doubt make it harder for the incoming Trump administration to negotiate a potential peace deal between Ukraine and Russia, something he’s vowed to begin from the moment he enters office again.