Moscow Summons US Envoy Following Missile Strike on Crimea’s Sevastopol

Russia’s foreign ministry summoned the U.S. ambassador on June 24 to convey Moscow’s belief that the United States has become a de facto party to the conflict in Ukraine. The move came two days after a missile attack on the Crimean city of Sevastopol—carried out with U.S.-supplied ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile Systems) missiles—that killed four Russian civilians. According to the foreign ministry, U.S. Ambassador Lynne Tracy was told that the United States had become a de facto party to the conflict by supplying Kyiv with advanced weapons, “including ATACMS missiles equipped with cluster warheads.”...