{"id":286930,"date":"2024-05-05T06:50:31","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T06:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=286930"},"modified":"2024-05-06T06:48:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-06T06:48:57","slug":"russia-says-it-shot-down-four-us-made-atacms-missiles-over-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=286930","title":{"rendered":"Russia says it shot down four US-made ATACMS missiles over Crimea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Reuters \u2013 May 4, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The Russian defense ministry said on Saturday its air defense forces shot down four US-produced long-range missiles over <a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/world\/2024\/05\/03\/russia-says-it-will-launch-a-devastating-revenge-attack-if-crimean-bridge-is-struck\">Crimea<\/a>, weapons known as Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) that Washington has shipped to Ukraine in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said later that Russian aircraft and air defense systems had downed a total of 15 ATACMS in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Russian officials said Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/world\/2024\/04\/30\/russian-installed-official-says-atacms-missiles-shot-down-over-crimea\">had attacked Crimea with ATACMS<\/a> in an attempt to pierce Russian air defenses of the annexed peninsula but that six had been shot down.<\/p>\n<p>A US official said in Washington last month that the United States secretly shipped long-range missiles to Ukraine in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The ATACMS missiles, with a range up to 300 kilometers (190 miles) were used for the first time in the early hours of April 17, launched against a Russian airfield in Crimea that was about 165 kilometers (103 miles) from the Ukrainian frontlines, the official said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon initially opposed the long-range missile deployment, concerned that taking the missiles from the American stockpile would hurt US military readiness.<\/p>\n<p>There were also concerns that Ukraine would use them to attack targets deep inside Russia, a step which could lead to an escalation of the war towards a direct confrontation between Russia and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Separately on Saturday, the Russian defense ministry said that in the last week its forces had destroyed a military train carrying equipment and arms produced in the West and supplied to Ukraine by NATO.<\/p>\n<p>The scale of the damage, exact date and location were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>Reuters is not immediately able to corroborate battlefield accounts from either side.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/world\/2024\/05\/04\/russia-says-it-shot-down-four-us-made-long-range-missiles-over-crimea\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia claims to have shot down four ATACMS missiles over Ukraine Saturday, bringing the total number of ATACMS shot down this week to 15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":258723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286932,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286930\/revisions\/286932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/258723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}