Russia Vows Retaliation Following Ukraine’s ATACMS Missile Attack on Taganrog Airfield

Russia's Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday that it will retaliate against Ukraine's missile attack on the Taganrog military airfield.

The Kyiv regime delivered a strike by six US-made ATACMS long-range ballistic missiles at the military airfield in Taganrog in southern Russia on the morning of December 11. Two of the missiles were shot down by a Pantsyr air defense system while the others were deflected by electronic warfare systems, the ministry said.

"This attack by Western long-range weapons won"t be left unanswered and corresponding measures will be taken," the ministry said in a statement, The Caspian Post reports, citing Russian media.

The ATACMS missile fragments that fell on the Taganrog military airfield caused injuries among the personnel and no destruction on the ground, the ministry said.

"There are injuries among the personnel as a result of the fall of missile fragments. There is no destruction while minor damage (shrapnel damage) was caused to two buildings on the airfield"s technical premises, three military motor vehicles and also civilian cars on a parking lot adjacent to the airfield," the ministry said.