Russia Strikes Multiple Sites in Ukraine in Response to Long-Range Missile Attacks

Targets reportedly included a command center operated by the Ukrainian Security Service.

People leave the site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in central Kyiv, Ukraine Dec.20, 2024. Reuters/Yan Dobronosov

Russia has struck multiple targets in Ukraine in response to an earlier long-range missile attack on its southern Rostov region, Moscow’s Ministry of Defence has said.

“The Russian military retaliated against Kiev’s attack on the Rostov Region by launching a group strike with long-range precision weapons,” the ministry said in a Dec. 20 statement, cited by Russian state news agency TASS.