MOSCOW, November 19. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces are ready to use long-range ATACMS missiles for strikes on Russian soil, Vladimir Zelensky said.

"Without going into unnecessary details, Ukraine has long-range capabilities. It has domestically produced long-range drones; we now have long-range Neptunes, more than one. And now we have ATACMS, and we will use all of them," he said in Kiev at a joint press conference with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, replying to a question about the potential use of ATACMS for strikes on Russia.

Earlier, the Russian Defense Ministry said that on Monday night into Tuesday, Ukraine attacked Russia’s borderline Bryansk Region with six ATACMS missiles. Five of them were shot down by Russia’s Pantsir and S-400 missile defense systems and one was damaged. The missiles crashed on the premises of a military facility in the Bryansk Region, causing a fire that was promptly put out. "There were no casualties or damage," the ministry noted.

At a press conference following the Group of Twenty summit, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, commenting on the incident, said that Ukraine’s strikes on the Bryansk Region using ATACMS missiles are a sign that the West is trying to escalate the situation, as such strikes are impossible without American help.