Putin admitted: Russia fired an intercstine ballistic missile in Ukraine, further escalation

Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed yesterday the news published by Ukrainian media, citing the country's armed forces, that Russia has fired an intercstinctical ballistic missile in Dnieper in Ukraine.

“Russia launched an experimental hypersonic ballistic missile in Ukraine at night in response to Kiev's allowing to target Russia with long-range US and British missiles”, Putin said, pledging it would respond to “escalation” further, according to The Moscow Times.

Although the Russian leader has said earlier that allowing Kiev to use long-range weapons against Russian targets would put NATO at <x0->war” with Moscow, the statement marked its most direct warning so far.

“In response to the use of long-range American and British weapons on November 21st, the Russian armed forces carried out a combined attack on a Ukrainian defence industry target”, Putin said.

“running operations was testing one of the latest Russian medium-range action missiles”.

In this case, a ballistic missile equipped with an non- Nuclear hypersonic head” has been used, the head of the Kremlin said.

Putin also said Russia would warn the <x0civils and citizens of the Ukrainian friendly countries present in those areas to evacuate” if its armed forces deploy Oresnik missiles again in the future.

“We will make it public and public, for humanitarian reasons, without fear of any opposition from the enemy, who will also receive this information”, the head of the Kremlin said.

Why without fear? Because from today there are no means to counter such a” weapon, Putin said, adding that Oresnik is able to hit targets at a speed of 2.5 to 3km per second.

An American official told The Moscow The Times under the condition of anonymity that Russia had issued a high-ray experimental ballistics strategy action” in Ukraine, a possible reference to Oreskin.

However, the official noted that Russia is likely to possess only a few of these missiles and that Ukraine has resisted attacks by apparently larger warheads.