The announcement came a day after Ukraine used U.S.-supplied missiles to strike inside Russia, raising fears of retaliation against the capital.
KYIV - American officials warned Wednesday of a “potential significant air attack” on Kyiv and said the U.S. Embassy in the capital would be closed “out of an abundance of caution” after Ukrainian forces“Embassy employees are being instructed to shelter in place,” a statement on the embassy website said. “The U.S. Embassy recommends U.S. citizens be prepared to immediately shelter in the event an air alert is announced.
“We believe it would be appropriate for our partners to respond on the 1,001st day in the same way they did on the preceding days, without adding to unnecessary informational escalation,” spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi said. Russian forces did pummel Ukraine with waves of self-destructing drones and missiles overnight on Wednesday - a regular occurrence since September. Ukraine’s air force said that of 122 drones launched at targets across the country, 56 were shot down and 64 failed to reach their targets.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said the attack on an arms depot in Russia’s western Bryansk region was largely ineffective. But Ukrainian officials said the strike caused a conflagration at the depot in the city of Karachev, just over 70 miles from the Russia-Ukraine border - and about 210 miles southwest of Moscow.
The head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin warned that “attempts by certain NATO allies” to help Ukraine with long-range strikes on Russian territory “will not go unpunished,” in an interview in Russia’s National Defense magazine published Wednesday.to slow down Russia’s steady advance in the eastern region, another reversal in long-standing U.S. policy.
The depot stored artillery and mortar shells and a variety of missiles, including missiles supplied by North Korea, Kovalenko wrote in a post on Telegram.
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