Russia threatens US after Crimea attack

Monday, Moscow told the US representative that there would be "consequences" if it did not stop attacking Crimea with US missiles. Moscow said that a Ukrainian attack killed four people.

Moscow is getting more and angrier at Washington and Kyiv's Western backers for giving weapons to be fired at Russian targets. They are being called direct players in the two-year war by Moscow.

Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, said that the attack on Sevastopol on Sunday was "barbaric" and that Washington was "killing Russian children."

Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev wrote on Telegram that two of the deaths were children.

Peskov also brought up what President Vladimir Putin said earlier this month about giving other countries weapons so they could attack Western targets.

Peskov told reporters on Monday, "The direct involvement of the United States in a situation where Russian civilians are killed cannot go without consequences."

He said, "Time will tell what these will be."

He said, "Just ask my colleagues in Europe and, most especially in Washington, ask their press secretaries why their government is killing Russian children."

The foreign ministry said Lynne Tracy, the US ambassador, had been called in.

Later, it said that Washington and the Kyiv government were both to blame for this horrible act and that the strike would "not go unpunished."

Russia said that the attack on Sunday was done with an ATACMS missile from the US that had a cluster bomb on board.

Officials in the port city who were sent there from Moscow said the missile hit an area with hotels and sandy beaches.

Russia said that 82 people, including 27 children, were hurt in the attack and were taken to the hospital.

TASS news service reported on Monday that 14 of the hurt were in terrible shape. Health Minister Mikhail Murashko said this.

"Russia needs to leave."

In a meeting this month with foreign news outlets like AFP, Putin said that the West's gift of long-range weapons to Ukraine was wrong.

Putin asked, "Why don't we have the right to send the same kind of weapons to places in the world where they will be used to attack sensitive facilities of those (Western) countries?"

In other words, the reaction can be uneven. "We'll think about it," he told the press.

Peskov also brought up what Putin had said about how to target information for Ukrainian attacks coming from Western countries.

In 2014, Russia took over Crimea on its own.

On Monday, Andriy Yermak, who runs the office of the president of Ukraine, said, "Crimea is Ukraine."

"Russia needs to leave the peninsula." It is time for their troops and armed bases to stop existing, he said on social media.

A top advisor to Ukraine's president, Mykhailo Podolyak, also said that Crimea could be a valid military target.

The speaker also said, "Crimea is also a big military camp and warehouse with hundreds of direct military targets that the Russians are trying to hide and cover up with their civilians."

As of February 2022, Russia started its offensive against Ukraine and has been killing people every day since then.

Ukraine says that since the attack began, 551 children have died, and 1,396 have been hurt.