Russia says infrastructure attacks in response to Ukrainian attacks using Western weaponry

Jan 16 (Reuters) - Russian military strikes against energy infrastructure in western Ukraine were carried out in response to Ukrainian strikes using Western weaponry, the Russian Defence Ministry said early on Thursday.

A defence ministry statement said it had made a successful strike on a large gas storage facility in the western Ukrainian town of Stryi.

It said Russia's military had acted in response to Ukraine's use of U.S. ATACMS missiles and British-made Storm Shadow missiles. It also referred to an attempted Ukrainian attack in Russia's Krasnodar region intended to halt gas supplies through the Turkstream pipeline network.

(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Chris Reese)

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