{"id":1377764,"date":"2022-03-15T06:28:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T10:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1377764"},"modified":"2022-03-15T10:35:49","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T14:35:49","slug":"russia-fired-cruise-missiles-at-ukraine-from-russian-airspace-pentagon-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-fired-cruise-missiles-at-ukraine-from-russian-airspace-pentagon-confirms\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Fired Cruise Missiles At Ukraine From Russian Airspace, Pentagon Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-fired-cruise-missiles-at-ukraine-from-russian-airspace-pentagon-confirms%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1377764&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1087740984.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, the Pentagon confirmed that Russia had fired cruise missiles from Russian air space that targeted the Yavoriv military training facility near the Polish border in western Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News\/Transcripts\/Transcript\/Article\/2966061\/pentagon-press-secretary-john-f-kirby-holds-a-press-briefing-march-14-2022\/\">stated<\/a>, \u201cThis was clearly a Russian airstrike. Our understanding is that these were cruise missiles fired from aircraft long range on the Yavoriv training facility there in western Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.airforcemag.com\/ukraine-needs-air-defenses-more-deadly-sanctions-on-russia\/\">Air Force Magazine<\/a> quoted a Pentagon official saying, \u201cThese air-launch cruise missiles were launched from long-range bombers. Russian long-range bombers from Russian airspace, not from inside Ukrainian airspace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia is believed to fly some 200 sorties per day while Ukraine flies 5 to 10 sorties in skies covered completely by Russian surface-to-air offensive missiles capabilities,\u201d Air Force Magazine added.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon pointed out that the cruise missile attacks illustrated the inefficacy of a no-fly zone if the West decided to establish one over Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>A defense official told Air Force Magazine, \u201cMy big concern is at what point do the Russians decide that they have to cut off the \u2026 ground line of communication? The supply lines from Poland into Ukraine or from anywhere into Ukraine. When does Russia feel like, you know, between the sanctions and the military support to the Ukrainians, when do they feel like that\u2019s provocative enough to strike back?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A reporter asked Kirby, \u201cTo go back to these strike on the Yavoriv. Did you consider that as a turning point in the war? The fact that they start striking in the West. Or do you consider that as just a signal to the west that we can do that if we want?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we would reduce something like this to calling it a signal,\u201d Kirby replied. \u201cI mean he \u2014 they use multiple cruise missiles here. Clearly, they had their reasons for targeting that training facility. And it is a Ukrainian military training facility. I\u2019ll let them speak to their targeting justifications. \u2026 I wouldn\u2019t think that we would consider this or the other strike in western Ukraine is some sort of turning point. The Russians clearly are expanding some of their target sets. That\u2019s obvious just from the fact that over the last couple of days, we\u2019ve seen other targets hit in Ukraine. It doesn\u2019t change \u2014 I think our general understanding that they continue to be frustrated by a very stiff Ukrainian resistance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another reporter commented, \u201cOften you say that Russia does not have air superiority. However, if Russia is flying 200 Sorties a day, and Ukraine\u2019s flying five to 10 and can\u2019t fly its combat aircraft, because Russia has complete SAM coverage. How is that not air superiority for Russia?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going get into the data metrics here with you,\u201d Kirby answered. \u201cWe still assess that, that Russia does not have air superiority over Ukraine and that the Ukrainians are defending their space ably.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, the Pentagon confirmed that Russia had fired cruise missiles from Russian air space that targeted the Yavoriv military training facility near the Polish border in western Ukraine.Pentagon Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1377764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1377764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1377764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1377764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1377764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1377764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}