An S-400 “Triumf” antiaircraft missile system. © Kirill Kallinikov
Russia is going to shot down Ukrainian missiles and to deliver a retaliation strike aganist Ukrainian missile launchers if Kiev conducts missile-firing exercises in the area of Russia’s Crimea, ZN.ua reported on Thursday, citing own sources in the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
ZN’s report says that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation send a protest note to the military attaches at the Ukrainian Embassy in the Russian Federation. The document allegedly included a warning that if the Ukrainian military conducts missile-firing exercises in the area, the Russian military will shoot down launched missiles and strike missile launchers.
Earlier in November, Ukraine announced that missile-firing exercises will be conducted over Crimea on December 1 and on December 2.
