JAKARTA - The Ukrainian military claims to have successfully attacked Russia's S-300 missile system using weapons supplied by the West within Russian territory.
"It caught fire beautifully. It was the Russian S-300. In Russian territory. The first days after permission to use Western weapons in enemy territory," Ukrainian Government Minister Iryna Vereshchuk posted on Facebook with images meant to show the attack.
This comes just days after US President Joe Biden gave Ukraine permission to carry out a limited US gun attack on Russian territory around Kharkiv, after several European countries removed restrictions on the use of the weapons.
It is unclear whether the weapon used in the attack described by Vereshchuk was supplied by the US.
Ukraine has been begging Washington for months to allow it to attack targets on Russian soil with US weapons, as Moscow launched brutal air and ground attacks in Kharkiv.
The permits granted by the US are breakthrough and bold, but are tentative and highly conditional.
Ukraine could only attack targets around Kharkiv, and the US insisted it would not allow Ukraine to use the toughest ammunition it had ever given Russia to be fired at Russia.
Ukraine can only use a short-range missile known as the GMLRS, which has a range of about 70 kilometers (about 40 miles).
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