Russia fired new ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says


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  • Thursday, 21 Nov 2024

A Russian intercontinental ballistic missile system unit after a military parade in Moscow, May 9, 2024. REUTERS/Yulia Morozova/File Photo

KYIV (Reuters) -Russia fired a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday in response to the U.S. and UK's allowing Kyiv to strike Russian territory with advanced Western weapons, in a further escalation of the 33-month-old war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a televised address, said Moscow struck a Ukrainian military facility with a new medium-range, hypersonic ballistic missile known as "Oreshnik" (the hazel) and warned that more could follow. He said civilians would be warned ahead of further strikes with such weapons.

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