Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that Moscow had information that Ukraine was planning to strike Russian-controlled Crimea with longer-range U.S. and British missiles and warned Russia would retaliate if that happened. | Reuters
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, but considers it to be outside the scope of what it calls its “special military operation” which is focused in eastern and southern Ukraine where Ukraine is fighting to retake territory.Kyiv, which says it is battling for its survival in a war of colonial conquest, says it wants to reclaim all of its territory however, including the Crimean peninsula which hosts Russia’s Black Sea naval base.
Shoigu told a meeting of military officials that Moscow had information that Ukraine planned to strike Crimea with U.S.-supplied HIMARS long-range rocket systems and with British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles.
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