Ukrainian forces carried out their first strike on a border region in Russia using Western-supplied missiles as President Vladimir Putin approved an updated nuclear doctrine expanding the conditions for using atomic weapons.
Ukraine deployed ATACMS missiles to strike a military facility in the western Bryansk region, Russia's Defense Ministry said, according to the Interfax news agency. It was the first known attack following the decision by President Joe Biden's administration to approve Kyiv's limited use of the weapons to hit targets inside Russia, two months before Donald Trump takes over promising to quickly end the war.
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