![]() Ukraine said this was the system used in the strike on the 27 June against the Ria pizza restaurant in the city of Kramatorsk, a key hub in the Ukrainian-held part of Donetsk. The location of the S-400 – designed as an air defence system but also used by the Russians to hit targets on the ground – is thought to have been near the Russian-held city of Debaltseve, in the eastern province of Donetsk. It did not say when the strike happened, other than it was recent. “HIMARS deliver the best revenge,” said the post by the Centre for Strategic Communication and Information Security of Ukraine. Ukraine has claimed it destroyed in revenge a Russian S-400 missile system that was used in a devastating attack against a pizza restaurant that killed 13 people, including children and the famous Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina.Ī government-linked social media account posted a photograph on Twitter of the wreckage of the weapon, which it said was taken out by Ukrainian HIMARS – an American-made multiple-rocket launcher. By Deborah Haynes, security and defence editor
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