We’re going to use all of them, Zelensky says after Ukraine fires first Atacms

Volodymy Zelensky has vowed to use all Ukraine’s long-range capabilities to strike inside Russia after Kyiv hit a weapons depot with a US-supplied Atacms missile.
“We’re going to use all of it,” the Ukrainian president pledged, describing how Ukraine produces its own missiles and drones and now has the freedom to use Atacms. 
Ukrainian officials earlier confirmed that Atacms missiles were used in the overnight strike that hit a Russian artillery depot, where North Korean ammunition was also stored, in the Bryansk border region. 
Moscow claimed its air defences intercepted five of the missiles and reported no damage.
Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister said the strike was a clear signal the West wants to escalate the conflict, claiming it would have been “impossible” to carry out without America’s help.
Just hours after the strike, Vladimir Putin signed a law allowing a nuclear strike in response to an attack with long-range missiles.
Today’s live coverage has ended. Here’s a roundup of the main events:
Four people were injured in two Russian strikes on the frontline Ukrainian city of Kupiansk on Tuesday, local officials said. 
“According to the investigation, on 19 November at around 16:00, the Russian Armed Forces attacked the town of Kupiansk. Two women aged 51 and 59 were injured,” the regional prosecutor’s office said. 
“At 17:00, the enemy attacked the town again. A woman and a man were injured,” it added. 
Ukrainian media said Russian forces used a Grad multiple-launch rocket system to attack the city, and that houses and outbuildings were damaged. 
Kupiansk lies on the northern edge of the Ukrainian frontline. 
Last week, Ukrainian troops repelled a Russian bid to gain a foothold in the city, defeating two convoys of tanks and armoured vehicles. 
A Ukrainian politician serving in the army has praised the US decision to lift restrictions on Kyiv firing Atacms missiles into Russia, saying it will reduce Moscow’s ability to wage war. 
“These instruments of war allow us to pummel their hubs, lessening the horror they are unleashing from the bases all around our borders,” Sviatoslav Yurash, an MP who serves in Ukraine’s 24th Separate Assault Battalion, told the Telegraph. 
Mr Yurash added that Ukrainian troops responded positively to the news of the US decision. 
“Troops aren’t complaining. The worst you’ll get is “too little, too late”,” he said. 
Eric Trump, the son of incoming US president Donald Trump, has said his father can end the war in Ukraine because “Putin actually respects him”. 
At the Trump International golf course in Balmedie, Scotland, Eric Trump told reporters that he believes his father when he says he could end the war in a day. 
Asked how it would happen, he said “because Putin actually respects him”. 
“He’s not going to send 200 billion dollars over to see young boys blow each other’s heads off in dirty trenches, broadcast to the world on YouTube every night,” he added. 
“He will end that conflict. You mark my words. He will end that conflict.” 
Sir Keir Starmer said Vladimir Putin’s “irresponsible rhetoric” on nuclear weapons is “not going to deter our support for Ukraine”.
Asked at a press conference during the G20 summit whether Britons should prepare for nuclear war, the Prime Minister said: “This is irresponsible rhetoric coming from Russia and that is not going to deter our support for Ukraine.
“We’re now on day 1,000 of a conflict, that’s 1000 days of Russian aggression, 1,000 days of sacrifices in Ukraine.
“We have stood with Ukraine from the start. I’ve been doubling down in my clear message that we need to ensure Ukraine has what is needed for as long as needed to win this war against Putin.”
Putin on Monday approved changes to Russia’s nuclear doctrine, allowing Moscow to respond with a nuclear strike if the country is attacked with conventional weapons. 
Volodymy Zelensky has said that Ukraine has long-range weapons and is prepared to use them all.
Asked by a reporter in Kyiv on Tuesday if he could confirm that the Ukrainian attack on a Russian warehouse in Bryansk was carried out with a US Atacms missile, Mr Zelensky replied:
“Without unnecessary details, Ukraine has long-range capabilities, there are long-range drones of its own production, we now have a long-range Neptune, and not just one.
“Now we have Atacms, we’re going to use it all.”
David Lammy said that Donald Trump is a “winner not a loser” on Tuesday as he sought to encourage the incoming US president to continue support for Ukraine.
Asked how the UK would engage with the next US administration on Ukraine, the Foreign Secretary told the House of Commons: “Donald Trump is a winner not a loser, and I’m sure he wants to ensure that the West is on the winning side.”
Earlier this month, Trump ally and former top US intelligence official Ezra Cohen urged Mr Lammy to apologise “to the American people” over previous comments that he had made about the US president-elect.
In 2018, David Lammy described Mr Trump as a “tyrant” and “a woman-hating, neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath”. 
A Telegraph journalist was forced to cut short a video recording after air road sirens rang out in Irpin, near Kyiv, on Tuesday.
Assistant Comment Editor Francis Dearnley, who is also a host on the Ukraine: The Latest podcast, was describing commemorations for the 2022 Battle of Irpin when a Russian air attack forced him to seek shelter.
The US decision to allow Ukraine to strike Russia with Atacms missiles gives Kyiv an opportunity to inflict significant damage on Moscow’s forces, according to an expert from the Royal United Services Institute.
Dr Jack Watling said “concentrated use” of long-range weapons could open up “exploitable opportunities”but that Ukraine must deploy the weapons effectively and strengthen its defences across the frontline. 
“To be effective, [Atacms] use must be part of a wider strategy that targets a specific target set,” Dr Watling said.
“If deep strikes help to reduce the pressure on the front, Kyiv must use the resulting time to strengthen the line of defence.”
Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that “it was time” for Germany to support long-range Ukrainian strikes against Russia.
The Ukrainian president made the mark during a press briefing in Kyiv with Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister.
Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, is facing growing pressure to reverse his decision not to provide Ukraine with Germany’s long-range Taurus missiles.
He has strongly opposed sending the weapons to Ukraine, arguing that Berlin could be drawn into the war if German personnel are required to help operate the missiles.
Ukraine’s strike on a military facility in Bryansk struck a warehouse holding North Korean ammunition, a senior Ukrainian politician said on Tuesday. 
Andrii Kovalenko, a member of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, said the US-made missiles struck warehouses housing “artillery ammunition, including North Korean ammunition for their systems.”
Washington said it would not change its position on nuclear weapons after Vladimir Putin signed a law lowering the threshold for their use against Ukraine and its allies.
Under the law, Russia can respond with nuclear weapons to an attack with conventional arms such as drones or missiles.
Moscow can also use nuclear weapons against a non nuclear-armed nation, such as Ukraine, if it is supported by nuclear-armed allies, such as Britain and America.
Ukraine has used American-made rockets inside Russia for the first time, a US official told Reuters on Tuesday.
The move comes just days after President Joe Biden’s administration allowed Ukraine to use Atacms to strike deep into Russia.
When asked about the attack in Bryansk, Volodymyr Zelensky said: “We now have Atacms…we will use them.”
More coming in from Sergey Lavrov, who has been speaking at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro. 
Russia’s foreign minister told reporters his country would do everything it could to avoid nuclear war and that such weapons would deter such an event.
It comes after Vladimir Putin lowered the threshold for Russian use of nuclear weapons in a new policy document.
Moscow will respond “accordingly” to Ukraine’s apparent use of American-made missiles to fire at targets inside Russia, Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday. 
Mr Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, said any modifications of Atacms “cannot be used without American military experts”, meaning the US is now directly involved in the war. 
“We will be taking this as a qualitatively new phase of the Western war against Russia and we will react accordingly,” Mr Lavrov said from the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro.
Ukraine launched six American-made Atacms at a military facility in Bryasnk, a border region in Russia. 
The facility, which Kyiv had previously targeted with drones, is around 110km (70 miles) from the Ukrainian border.
Volodymyr Zelensky has reiterated that Ukraine views joining Nato as integral to its future.
“We have achieved the highest level of closeness with the European Union and Nato since our independence,” the Ukrainian president told his parliament on Tuesday.
“All necessary architecture for the negotiation process with the European Union has been formed. We have to move dynamically during the talks.”
“Ukraine’s right to NATO membership is vitally important for all of us.”
Vladimir Putin’s move to lower the threshold for a nuclear strike is the latest example of irresponsibility from a “depraved Russian government”, Keir Starmer’s spokesman said on Tuesday.
 “It would be fair to say it’s the latest example of irresponsibility that we have seen from the depraved Russian government and we remain steadfast in our support for Ukraine.”
Unlike a more conventional cruise missile (600mph), Atacms can accelerate to three times the speed of sound (2,300 MPH), making them more difficult for air defence systems to intercept. Their speed is the missile’s main strength.
Once launched, Russia’s web of radars and missile detection systems will be up almost instantly.
“But a ballistic missile you might see it coming but you’ve got about three minutes,” said Justin Crump, the chief executive of the strategic intelligence company Sibylline.
“It’s only in your engagement area for maybe 30 seconds, and you’ve got to fire something very fast back at it, not an easy target.”
Ukraine fired six long-range missiles at a military facility in Russia, Moscow’s defence ministry said on Tuesday.
Russian air defence systems intercepted five of the missiles and damaged one, the report said. Debris from one missile fell on a military facility in the region, causing a fire, it added.
Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv may have to wait for the end of Vladimir Putin’s rule in Russia to reclaim its full internationally recognised territory.
“Perhaps Ukraine will have to outlast someone in Moscow to achieve all its goals… Perhaps to restore the full integrity of the state,” the Ukrainian president said in an address to Ukraine’s parliament.
When Joe Biden and Donald Trump sat down for their fireside chat last week, the outgoing president made it clear that supporting Ukraine was in the United States’ interest.
Allowing Vladimir Putin and a resurgent Russia to succeed on the battlefield would ultimately risk Washington being dragged into a much wider European ground war, Mr Biden told his former presidential rival.
It is an argument Mr Trump has swatted away throughout his latest election campaign.
But as he prepares for a return to the White House under the promise to end the war on day one, there are reasons why he may now be listening.
Read the full story here.
Berlin assumes that damage to two undersea fibre-optic communication cables in the Baltic Sea was sabotage, Germany’s defence minister said on Tuesday. 
“No one believes the cables were accidentally damaged. I also don’t want to believe that the ships’ anchors caused the damage by accident,” Boris Pistorius said in Brussels.
“We have to assume, without certain information, that the damage is caused by sabotage.”
Two cables in the Baltic were severed on Sunday and Monday – one believe Finland and Germany and one between Sweden and Lithuania.
Read more about the suspected sabotage here.
Vladimir Putin has signed a law allowing a nuclear strike in response to an attack with long-range missiles.
The decision to change Russia’s official nuclear doctrine has been in the works for several weeks but its confirmation appears to be in response to Joe Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to fire American missiles inside Russia.
Under the law, Russia can respond with nuclear weapons to an attack with conventional arms such as drones or missiles.
Moscow can also use nuclear weapons against a non nuclear-armed nation, such as Ukraine, if it is supported by nuclear-armed allies, such as Britain and America.
“It was necessary to bring our principles in line with the current situation,” Mr Peskov added, calling the update a “very important” document that should be “studied” abroad.
Russia could respond to an attack carried out with Nato-made missiles by firing nuclear weapons on Kyiv, Dmitry Medvedev has warned. 
“Key Nato facilities, wherever they’re located” could also be targeted, the former Russian president said on Tuesday. 
“That means World War III.”
Russia’s new nuclear doctrine means NATO missiles fired against our country could be deemed an attack by the bloc on Russia. Russia could retaliate with WMD against Kiev and key NATO facilities, wherever they’re located. That means World War III.
North Korea could send as many as 100,000 troops to fight in Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday.
Around 11,000 troops are thought to be fighting alongside Moscow’s troops, he told the European Parliament in Brussels via video link.
“No one can enjoy calm waters amid a storm,” the Ukrainian president said.
Russian forces have claimed the capture of Novoselydivka, a village near the strategic town of Kurakhove.
Moscow’s army is now rapidly advancing in the Donetsk region and closing in on the industrial town of Kurakhove, which had a pre-war population of around 10,000 people.
Russian troops now control territory to the north, east and south of Kurakhove, which lies on the shores of a reservoir.
It comes after Volodymyr Zelensky visited the frontline city of Pokrovsk, not far from Kurakhove. Both are key Russian targets.
Kyiv fired American long-range missiles for the first time on Tuesday, striking a Russian military facility in Bryansk, a defence source told RBC Ukraine.
“Indeed, Atacms was used for the first time to strike the territory of the Russian Federation. The strike was carried out on a facility in the Bryansk region, it was successfully destroyed,” a defence source told the Ukrainian media outlet.
The use of Atacms in the strike on the military facility, which was reportedly home to North Korean shells, has not been confirmed by Kyiv.
The target was around 130km from the Ukrainian border. If confirmed by Ukraine, it would contradict reports in US media that Mr Biden had only approved such strikes in the Kursk region, which is currently occupied by Kyiv’s troops.
An overnight Russian strike on Sumy killed ten people, including a child, Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday morning.
A drone hit a residential building in the small town of Hlukhiv in the Sumy border region, the Ukrainian president said, adding that more victims may be stuck under rubble.
The attack came as Ukraine marked the 1,000th day since Russia’s full-scale invasion and just hours after 11 people were killed and dozens more injured in a separate attack on the northeastern Sumy region.
Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine in recent days, targeting the country’s critical energy infrastructure ahead of what is expected to be a harsh winter.
In the Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday, a Russian missile attack killed 10 people and wounded 44.
Moscow vowed to defeat Ukraine on Tuesday as it marked 1,000 days since its illegal invasion.
“The military operation against Kyiv continues,” a Kremlin spokesman told reporters, adding that Western aid “cannot affect the outcome of our operation. It continues, and will be completed”.
Russia’s deadly attack on a residential dormitory in Sumy shows Vladimir Putin’s “true intentions”, Volodymyr Zelensky has said.
“Every new Russian strike only confirms (Russian President Vladimir) Putin’s true intentions. He wants the war to continue, he is not interested in talking about peace,” the Ukrainian president said. 
It comes after the death from the strike increased to nine, according to local authorities.
Emergency services are continuing to respond to a Russian drone strike on a residential dormitory in Sumy. 
Workers can be seen sifting through the rubble, where there may be more survivors, according to Volodymymr Zelensky.
Boris Johnson has called on Ukraine to be given $500bn and a set date on which it can join Nato as Ukraine marks 1,000 days of war.
It follows reports that a future peace deal between Moscow and Kyiv may involve ruling out Nato membership for 10-20 years. 
Mr Johnson said: “It is great news that Joe Biden has finally given the Ukrainians permission to use Atacms against Russian bases so that the Ukrainians are not fighting with one hand tied behind their backs.
“Britain and France must immediately give symmetrical positions for the use of Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles.”
It is great news that Joe Biden has finally given the Ukrainians permission to use ATACMS against Russian bases so that the Ukrainians are not fighting with one hand tied behind their backs. Britain and France must immediately give symmetrical positions for the use of Storm…
Joe Biden is poised to allow Ukraine to fire Storm Shadow missiles inside Russia for the first time.
Mr Biden is expected to give his blessings for the British-made weapon to be used in Kursk, after authorising similar American long-range missiles to be deployed.
Olaf Scholz, the German chancellor, is now under increasing pressure to allow Taurus missiles to join the offensive, which would give Ukraine a trio of new munitions to hit high-value Russian targets.
British and American officials declined to comment on private conversations about the missiles on Monday, citing the risk that Russia could move its resources out of range before the weapons could be deployed.
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Kyiv said Tuesday that it would continue to resist the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in a statement marking 1,000 days since the Kremlin launched its illegal invasion.
“Ukraine will never submit to the occupiers, and the Russian military will be punished for violating international law,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
Ukraine is marking 1,000 days since Russia’s full-scale invasion.
Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian president, posted a video on X marking the grim milestone, highlighting how his country had also received “1,000 days of support”. 
The video also features Mr Zelensky’s efforts to secure international support, showing meetings with Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer, as well as Donald Trump. 
1000 days together 1000 days of Ukraine🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/o3FMIdEKZi
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