The United States gave Ukraine permission to use the weapons to hit Russian territory earlier this month after months of requests from Kyiv.
In a uncommon admission, Russia mentioned the contemporary strikes had prompted harm to army {hardware} and wounded a few of its personnel on the bottom.
A strike on the Kursk Vostochny air base wounded two servicemen, the defence ministry mentioned, whereas a strike on an air defence battery broken a radar system and in addition prompted “casualties”.
It mentioned three of the 5 missiles fired within the first strike have been shot down, whereas seven of the eight used within the second have been destroyed.
Moscow not often supplies such particular particulars on Ukrainian aerial assaults and virtually by no means admits missiles have reached their meant goal.
The defence ministry additionally posted photographs of what it mentioned have been the missile fragments, displaying giant casings with English-language inscriptions on the facet.
AFP was unable to right away confirm the photographs.
The strikes include tensions having ratched up dramatically within the close to three-year battle over the previous few weeks.
Putin final week signed a decree lowering the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, days earlier than launching the nuclear-capable hypersonic Oreshnik missile at Ukraine.
