“A new conventional intermediate-range missile” was used by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces to target the city of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine on Thursday morning.
He claimed that Ukraine’s deployment of US and UK long-range weapons to strike targets within Russia prompted the development of the Oreshnik missile.
Russia may strike military installations of nations that permitted the use of their weapons for this reason, Putin continued.
In a significant shift in strategy, the United States and the United Kingdom approved the use of US ATACMS and UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles this week.
Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, described Russia’s deployment of the new missile as .”
