On Tuesday, the enemy attacked a facility in Bryansk oblast with six ballistic missiles, which, according to the confirmed data, used U.S.-made Atacms operational tactical missiles, the military agency said in a statement.

The attack did not cause any casualties or material damage, the ministry assured, and specified that ‘five missiles were shot down and one was damaged by S-400 anti-aircraft systems and Pantsir-S air cannons’.

The fragments of the latter missile fell on the territory of a military installation, causing a fire that was quickly extinguished.

On Sunday, The New York Times reported that U.S. President Joe Biden had authorized Ukraine to use long-range U.S. missiles to attack Russia.

Sources quoted by the newspaper guessed that the first Ukrainian strikes into Russian territory would be carried out with Atacms ballistic missiles, which have a 300 kilometer range.

Russian Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that the alleged authorization for Ukraine to attack targets deep inside Russian territory with long-range Western missiles would mean a new spiral of tensions.

From the Russian Foreign Ministry warned earlier that if Kiev receives permission to strike targets deep inside the country, Moscow will consider it a direct North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) involvement in an armed conflict with Russia and will give an ‘inevitable and destructive’ response.

Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier noted that NATO countries ‘must understand what they are playing with’ when they talk about allowing Kiev to launch attacks inside Russia with Western-supplied missiles.

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