MOSCOW (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the Ukraine war was escalating towards a global conflict after the United States and Britain allowed Ukraine to hit Russia with their weapons, and warned the West that Moscow could strike back. Russia, Putin said, had responded to the use of U.S. and British missiles by firing a new kind of hypersonic medium-range ballistic missile at a Ukrainian military facility.

The Kremlin fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile at Ukraine on Thursday in response to Kyiv's use this week of American and British missiles capable of striking deeper into Russia, President Vladimir Putin said. In a televised address to the country, the Russian president warned that U.S. air defense systems would be…

KYIV, Ukraine - The Kremlin fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile at Ukraine on Thursday in response to Kyiv's use this week of American and British missiles capable of striking deeper into Russia, President Vladimir Putin said.In a televised address to the country, the Russian president warned that U.S. air defense systems would be powerless to stop the new missile, which he said flies at ten times the speed of sound and which he called the Oreshnik — Russian for hazelnut tree. He also said it could be used to attack any Ukrainian ally whose missiles are used to attack Russia.“We believe that we have the right to use our weapons against military facilities of the countries that allow to use their weapons against our facilities,” Putin said in his first comments since President Joe Biden gave Ukraine the green light this month to use U.S. ATACMS missiles to strike at limited targets inside Russia.Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh confirmed that Russia’s missile was a new, experimental type…

The Russian leader ominously declares that America risks nuclear war as it expands its aid.

KYIV:  Kyiv shuttered parliament on Friday (Nov 22) for one day, citing a potential Russian missile attack after President Vladimir Putin issued a warning to the West by launching a new intermediate-range missile at Ukraine. Moscow's 33-month invasion of Ukraine escalated this week with

Vladimir Putin said Moscow reserves the right to strike countries that allow Kyiv to hit Russian territory with their weapons.

The strike took place on a military facility in the city of Dnipro.

The attack has ignited fears of a dangerous escalation in the war

This is the first time Parliament has canceled a session since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Russia fired what it said was a new type of ballistic missile at Ukraine this week.Putin called the missile the "Oreshnik" and said it had a

MOSCOW: Moscow’s launch of the new hypersonic missile Oreshnik in response to Western approval of strikes deep into Russian territory unsettled Ukrain...

The new intermediate-range ballistic missile called Oreshnik used by Russia in a strike on Ukraine is a nuclear-capable weapon that has not been previously mentioned in public.

It is the first known use in the war of such a powerful weapon, with a range of thousands of kilometres.

Russia's use of what President Vladmir Putin said was a new intermediate-range missile against Ukraine was all about signaling -- "a political strike not a military one," as one analyst put it. Here's what Putin was probably hoping to achieve.

Vladimir Putin has said that Russia used a new "intermediate-range" ballistic missile against Ukraine in response to long-range missiles being fired on its territory.

A Russian missile strike near Dnipro shows off a new, highly maneuverable weapon that sends a signal to the West.

Putin is 'testing' the West after using a new ballistic missile against Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned.

As per Putin's press briefing, it was the latest Oreshnik missile system that Russia used for 'combat testing' on Ukraine, displaying that they are capable of hitting anywhere in Ukraine with nuclear weapons and they have a missile system that can evade the defence systems deployed in Ukraine. | OpIndia News

Ukraine's air force said on Thursday that Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which are designed to deliver nuclear warheads, at targets in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. But…

Two months before leaving office, US President Joe Biden has lifted restrictions preventing Kyiv from using the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) for strikes deep into Russian territory that could…