Medvedev warned of a response if Kyiv hits Russia with HIMARS MLRS

US HIMARS missile and artillery system. File photoMOSCOW, June 2In the event that Ukraine uses US-supplied missile systems against Russian facilities, the Armed Forces will have no choice but to act to defeat decision-making centers, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview with Al Jazeera TV channel MLRS HIMARS. He explained what kind of centers he is talking about, in particular, this will affect the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff of Ukraine. «But you need to understand that the final decision-making centers in this case, unfortunately, are not even located on the territory of Kyiv. Therefore, this is certainly a threat that will need to be taken into account,» Medvedev added.Media: US plans to sell Gray Eagle drones to UkraineOn the eve of US Deputy Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl said that the new package of US military assistance to Ukraine includes four modern HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems capable of hitting targets at a distance of up to 80 kilometers in transferred equipment. Washington said that they had enlisted the promise of the Ukrainian authorities not to use HIMARS to strike targets in Russia. Volodymyr Zelensky publicly confirmed the existence of such an agreement. At the same time, Verkhovna Rada deputy Yegor Chernev allowed the shelling of Russian facilities, and US Ambassador to Kyiv Bridget Brink said that Washington would not regulate the firing range of the HIMARS installations that would be supplied to Ukraine. noted that Moscow does not have a credit of confidence in Kyiv, since the head of the Ukrainian state did not fulfill a single promise for a peaceful settlement of the conflict in Donbass. Deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Ryabkov told RIA Novosti that any supply of weapons to Ukraine, no matter how Washington argued them, increase the risk of a direct collision between Russia and the United States.Britain is coordinating with the United States the re-export of MLRS to Ukraine, media writesAccording to Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, it is impossible and useless to discuss Zelensky's promises, there must be real data. She noted that at the end of last year, Russia demanded written security guarantees, because «no one else is guided by any words of Zelensky and Western leaders.» Ukraine with weapons. According to him, Ukrainian punishers continue shelling the peaceful quarters of Donbass with these weapons, as they have been doing this for 8 years, killing women, the elderly and children.Special military operationRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, on March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.