Himars MLRS. File photoUN, 6 Jun. Russia reserves the right to strike at centers where decisions are made on the use of long-range multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) by Ukraine, Vasily Nebenzia, Russia's permanent representative to the UN, said at a meeting of the Security Council. Statements by Western politicians, namely the state US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, that Kyiv is not going to use American MLRS to hit targets in Russia, does not seem convincing, he explained. >In China, the true purpose of the American MLRS HIMARS for Kiev was revealedThe permanent representative is convinced that in this way the head of the State Department is actually trying to legalize the right of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to launch missile attacks on the DPR and LPR, which kill people, including children. «In this regard, we not only reserve the right to move the line of threat from neo-Nazis to Russia and the republics of Donbass to the distance of a possible defeat with new long-range ammunition, but also to strike at the centers for making criminal decisions on the use of such types of weapons,» the diplomat concluded. Last week, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl said that the new package of American military assistance to Ukraine includes four HIMARS systems capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 80 kilometers in the transferred equipment. Volodymyr Zelensky publicly confirmed that Kyiv will comply with Washington's demand and will not use new weapons against Moscow. At the same time, Verkhovna Rada deputy Yegor Chernev did not rule out strikes on Russian territory. HIMARSPress Secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Peskov noted that Moscow does not have a credit of confidence in the Ukrainian side, because earlier Kyiv had not fulfilled a single promise for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbass. Since February 24, Russia has been conducting a special military operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to harassment and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» of the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine as of 06.06.2022
