Russia Could Deploy Missiles in Asia if U.S. Missiles Appear There
Russian Oreshnik hypersonic missile breaking the sound barrier, Nov. 2024. X/ @aapayes
November 26, 2024 Hour: 6:36 am
‘The appearance of U.S. systems in any region of the world will determine our next steps,’ Ryabkov said.
On Monday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said that his country is considering possibly deploying medium-range and short-range missiles in Asia if U.S. missiles appear in the same region.
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“The appearance of such U.S. systems in any region of the world will determine our next steps, including in the field of organizing a military and military-technical response,” Ryabkov told reporters when asked whether Russia is considering the possibility of deploying medium-range and short-range missiles in Asia.
The diplomat also said that U.S. bases in Europe, including those where tactical nuclear weapons are deployed, are not excluded as potential targets for Russia in the event of a hypothetical military conflict.
On Monday, General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces announced that the Ukrainian forces launched a series of overnight attacks on “important facilities” in three regions of western Russia. An oil depot in the Kaluga region was struck during the attack, the General Staff said, adding that outcomes of strikes on other targets in the Bryansk and the Kursk regions are still being assessed.
So far, Western missile strikes on Russian territory and Moscow’s use of a new ballistic missile have failed to upset the balance of power on the battlefield, where Russia continues to gain ground and Ukraine is trying to hold on to the territory it controls in Russia’s Kursk region.
“For now, it is simply a political decision with no consequences for the situation at the front,” said military analyst and colonel in the reserve of the Ukrainian army Sergey Grabsky, referring to Kiev’s permission to attack military targets inside Russia with ATACMS and Storm Shadow ballistic missiles.
Grabsky warns that the qualitative leap in Western support for Ukraine that this step represents will only have a significant impact on the course of the war if ATACMS and Storm Shadow attacks on Russian rear targets take place in sufficient numbers.
teleSUR/ JF Source: Xinhua
