2 hours ago Putin says Russia will use experimental missile again after Ukraine strike

Ukrainian president calls testing of nuclear-capable weapon on his country’s territory an ‘international crime’Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesVladimir Putin has vowed to launch more strikes using an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile as Ukraine decried the testing of the nuclear-capable weapon on its territory as an “international crime”.Speaking at a defence conference on Friday, Putin contested US claims that Russia possessed only a “handful” of the high-speed ballistic missiles, saying that the military had enough to continue to test them in “combat conditions”. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Putin says he will fire MORE of Russia's new hypersonic missiles at targets in Ukraine and has already begun mass production of the nuclear

Putin also said that Moscow would carry out more tests of the hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile in 'combat conditions,' a day after firing one on Ukraine.

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6 hours ago 'Putin isn't bluffing we are walking into disaster', Serbia's president warns, as Poland says 'threat of global conflict is real'

Aleksander Vucic's ominous comment comes after Ukraine carried out its first strike on Russian territory with a US-supplied long-range missile on Tuesday

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11 hours ago If Putin attacks, London might be covered but the rest of Britain is defenceless if the missiles start raining down, writes ED LUCAS

EDWARD LUCAS: Yesterday, the Russian dictator denied claims that Moscow had launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

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12 hours ago Vladimir Putin's new missiles could ‘hit Britain in 20 minutes,' expert warns

Ukraine was braced for brutal new Russian attacks after he dropped his new Oreshnik hypersonic missile on Dnipro yesterday - and there was a warning the UK could be next

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12 hours ago North Korean general is wounded in Ukrainian strike inside Russia's Kursk region, it is revealed

Western officials confirmed that a high-ranking military officer from North Korea had become a casualty of the war in Ukraine for the first time yesterday, with 10,000 troops in Russia

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22 hours ago Nato says new Russian missile won’t deter support for Ukraine – live updates

Russia’s use of intermediate-range ballistic missile widely condemned; Zelenskyy says latest strike a ‘severe escalation’Putin says Russia fired experimental ballistic missile into UkraineUkraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, has issued a statement on X after Vladimir Putin said Russian forces had hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipro with a new experimental mid-range ballistic missile.The Russian leader has “admitted” to taking a step “toward escalating and expanding this war” by using a new ballistic missile on Ukraine, Zelenskyy wrote.Putin struck our city of Dnipro, one of Ukraine’s largest cities. This is a clear and severe escalation in the scale and brutality of this war — a cynical violation of the UN Charter by Russia.Putin alone started this war—an entirely unprovoked war — and...

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25 hours ago US accuses Putin of ‘escalating at every turn’ after Russian leader blames ‘Nato aggression’ for missile attack – live updates

Russian president says Moscow ‘had the right’ to strike western countries that provide Kyiv with long-range weaponsPutin says Russia fired experimental ballistic missile into UkraineMaria Zakharova, Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson, was interrupted during a briefing earlier on Thursday by a call that instructed her not to comment on reports of a Russian ballistic missile attack at Ukraine.Zakharova, in the middle of a regular press conference, received a call from a man who used the informal “Mash” instead of Maria, according to video that picked up the telephone conversation.About the ballistic missile strike on Yuzhmash (rocket company Pivdenmash) that the western media are talking about, we are not commenting at all.The US was pre-notified briefly before the launch through nucl...

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27 hours ago Putin sends warning to ‘ruling elites’ after Russia tests new missile in Ukraine strike

Vladimir Putin sent a warning to "ruling elites" and confirmed Russia has tested a new intermediate range missile in a strike on Ukraine.

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