Ukraine accuses Russia of launching intercontinental ballistic missile

President Vladimir Putin says Russia tested a hypersonic intermediate-range rocket successful a onslaught connected Ukraine.

Ukraine has accused Russia of firing a caller benignant of rocket astatine the metropolis of Dnipro arsenic Moscow said it tested an intermediate-range ballistic rocket successful a onslaught connected Ukraine, amid soaring tensions successful the more-than-two-year war.

Kyiv said connected Thursday that Russia had fired an intercontinental ballistic rocket (ICBM) on with a barrage of rockets astatine the metropolis successful cardinal Ukraine. Local authorities said the onslaught deed an infrastructure installation and injured 2 civilians.

In a televised address, President Vladimir Putin said Russia had tested a hypersonic intermediate-range rocket successful a onslaught connected Ukraine successful effect to the assertive actions of NATO countries.

A United States authoritative was cited by the Reuters quality bureau arsenic saying that Russia did not occurrence an ICBM, but alternatively launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile, according to an appraisal based connected its archetypal analysis.

“Today determination was a caller Russian missile. All the characteristics – speed, altitude – are [of an] intercontinental ballistic [missile],” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said successful a video statement.

He said experts were examining the grounds of the onslaught and accused Moscow of “using Ukraine arsenic a investigating ground”.

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Heorhii Tykhyi said that the onslaught “proves Russia does not question peace”.

“To the contrary, it makes each effort to grow the war,” helium added.

When asked astir the attack, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia was moving to debar a atomic conflict.

“We person stressed successful the discourse of our doctrine that Russia is taking a liable presumption to marque maximum effort not to let specified a conflict,” Peskov said.

Attacks successful Russia

The struggle betwixt Russia and Ukraine has escalated successful caller days aft the US granted Ukraine permission to usage long-range weapons to onslaught targets successful Russia, a determination that Ukraine had sought for months.

On Tuesday, Ukraine reportedly fired US-made Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) missiles astatine targets successful Russia for the archetypal time.

Putin connected Tuesday lowered the threshold for a atomic onslaught successful effect to a broader scope of accepted attacks.

On Wednesday, British media reported that Ukraine launched long-range British Storm Shadow cruise missiles astatine targets successful Russia. The Russian Defence Ministry confirmed the usage of the missiles.

Separately, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova described the opening of a caller US rocket defence basal successful Poland arsenic a “provocative measurement successful a bid of profoundly destabilising actions by the Americans and their allies”.

“This leads to undermining strategical stability, expanding strategical risks and, arsenic a result, to an summation successful the wide level of atomic danger,” she said.

Poland dismissed the thought that the basal would beryllium utilized for onslaught purposes.

The escalation comes arsenic Moscow’s forces person precocious deeper into the Donetsk portion successful eastbound Ukraine. Russia’s subject announced connected Thursday that its forces had captured a colony adjacent to Kurakhove, closing successful connected the municipality aft months of dependable advances.

Ukraine’s antiaircraft lines are besides buckling nether Russian unit crossed the beforehand line.

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