Russia will strike new targets if longer-range missiles supplied to Ukraine by US

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned the West that Russia would strike new targets if the United States started supplying Ukraine with longer-range missiles.

According to TASS news agency report, Mr Putin said that if such missiles are supplied, Russia will strike at those targets which they have not yet been hitting. He said, the fuss around Western weapon supplies to Ukraine was designed to drag out the conflict. In an excerpt of an interview with Rossiya-1 state



television channel, he claimed that Russian anti-aircraft forces have shot down dozens of Ukrainian weapons.

Ukraine has been seeking Multiple Rocket Launch Systems (MLRS) to strike troops and weapons stockpiles at the Russian forces' rear. U.S. President Joe Biden announced plans this week to give Ukraine precision HIMARS rocket systems after receiving assurances from Kyiv that it would not use them to hit targets inside Russia.