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Russian president says Moscow has stockpile of such systems ready to use
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Vladimir Putin<\/a> has vowed to launch more strikes using an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile (IBRM) like that fired at Ukraine<\/a> on Thursday, insisting Moscow<\/a> had a stockpile of them.
The Russian president said production of the Oreshnik was being launched, adding: \u201cNo one in the world has such weapons.\u201d
Testing the hypersonic missile would continue, he said, \u201cincluding in combat, depending on the situation and the character of security threats created for Russia<\/a>\u201d. There is \u201ca stockpile of such systems ready for use\u201d, he added.
The missile is so powerful, Putin claimed, that the use of several fitted with conventional warheads in one attack could be as devastating as a strike with strategic \u2014 nuclear \u2014 weapons.
Meanwhile, Poland<\/a>\u2019s prime minister warned of a real risk of a global conflict breaking out.
Donald Tusk said the war was taking on \u201cdramatic proportions\u201d.
Russia fired a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro<\/a> on Thursday.
Putin\u00a0said the strike was in retaliation for Ukraine\u2019s using Western-supplied long-range missiles to strike military targets inside Russian territory.
Vladimir Putin has vowed to launch more strikes using an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile.
The Russian president disputed US claims that his country possessed only a few of the high-speed ballistic missiles, saying that the military had enough to continue to test them in \u201ccombat conditions\u201d.
None the less, he said Moscow would ramp up production of the new \u201cunstoppable\u201d hypersonic ballistic missile it fired at Ukraine on Thursday.
He told a defence conference on Friday tests of the missile system had been passed, adding: \u201cAs has been said already, we\u2019ll be continuing these tests, including in combat conditions, depending on the situation and nature of threats being posed to Russia\u2019s security, especially considering that we have enough of such items, such systems ready for use in stock.\u201d
Russian units\u00a0fighting in Ukraine which were previously considered \u201celite\u201d are now becoming \u201cincreasingly obsolete\u201d as a result of\u00a0Russia\u2019s strategy\u00a0of throwing waves of troops into battle that has turned the frontline into a \u201cmeat grinder\u201d, a leading war monitor has said.
Army formations which once carried out specialised tactical tasks in their assault on\u00a0Ukrainians\u00a0are now \u201cunderstrength\u201d, and reliant on\u00a0infantry-led assaults\u00a0which fail to deploy any \u201cunique tactics\u201d, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) said.
Once considered \u201celite\u201d, the units are \u201cnow essentially functioning as understrength motorised rifle units, relying on infantry-led frontal assaults to make tactical gains as opposed to employing any sort of doctrinally unique tactics,\u201d the US-based think tank said in an update on Thursday.
On Thursday, Russia used a new ballistic missile in Ukraine
The Foreign Secretary has vowed to continue to \u201cdo everything that is necessary\u201d to help\u00a0Ukraine\u00a0combat Russia after\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u00a0threatened strikes on the UK.
The Russian president used a new ballistic missile against Ukraine on Thursday, with Mr Putin claiming the use of the weapon was in response to the UK and US allowing missiles they have supplied to Ukraine to be used to strike targets in Russia.
\u201cWe consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities,\u201d he said.
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The head of the UK\u2019s armed forces, Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, met Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv to discuss the war on Thursday.
Nato\u00a0and Ukraine will meet in Brussels, Belgium, next week in response to Moscow\u2019s use of the Oreshnik missile on Dnipro, central Ukraine.
The meeting on Tuesday of the Nato-Ukraine council will happen on ambassadorial level. It was called by\u00a0Kyiv\u00a0after the strike on the city of\u00a0Dnipro.
A\u00a0British\u00a0man admitted on Friday that he carried out an arson attack on a\u00a0London\u00a0commercial property linked to\u00a0Ukraine, and that he had accepted pay from a foreign intelligence agency, in a case prosecutors have linked to\u00a0Russia.
Jake Reeves, 22, pleaded guilty at London\u2019s\u00a0Woolwich\u00a0crown court to charges of aggravated arson on the premises belonging to a \u201cMr X\u201d on an industrial estate in east London in March.
He also admitted a charge under the\u00a0UK\u2019s new National Security Act (NSA) of obtaining a material benefit from a foreign intelligence service.
A Russian drone attack on the northeastern Ukrainian city of Sumy killed two people and injured 12 on Friday morning, regional authorities said.
Twelve apartment buildings, five private residences, a store and three cars were damaged after three drones attacked the city around 5am (0300 GMT), the national police said.
Volodymyr Artiukh, Sumy regional governor, said Russian forces had equipped drones with shrapnel for the attack on a densely populated area of the city.
\u201cThis weapon is used exclusively to kill people,\u201d Artiukh said, pointing to scars on a damaged building. \u201cNot for a facility, but in order to destroy more people.\u201d
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has said the Korean Peninsula has never been so close to a nuclear war, after what he described as \u201caggressive\u201d moves from the US in particular.
\u201cNever before have the warring parties on the Korean Peninsula faced such a dangerous and acute confrontation that it could escalate into the most destructive thermonuclear war,\u201d Kim said.
\u201cWe have already gone as far as we can on negotiating with the United States, but what we became certain of from the result is not the superpower\u2019s willingness to coexist, but its thorough stance of power and aggressive and hostile policy toward us that can never change.\u201d
Russia\u2019s use of a\u00a0new experimental hypersonic missile\u00a0is a severe escalation of the conflict, Ukrainian president\u00a0Volodymyr Zelensky\u00a0warned.
Zelensky said\u00a0the attack on Dnipro, central\u00a0Ukraine, with a medium-range ballistic warhead on Thursday was \u201cyet more proof that Russia has no interest in peace\u201d.
Ukrainian air defence forces said the missile \u2013 which has a\u00a0range of more than 3,400 miles\u00a0and can be used to carry nuclear warheads \u2013 was fired from\u00a0Russia\u2019s Astrakhan region, on the Caspian Sea.
\u201cHe is testing you, dear partners. He must be stopped. A lack of tough reactions to Russia\u2019s actions sends a message that such behaviour is acceptable. This is what Putin is doing,\u201d Zelensky said.
\u201cPressure is needed. Russia must be forced into real peace, which can only be achieved through strength,\u201d he added.
While launching an intermediate-range missile is a less threatening signal, the incident could still set off alarms and Moscow notified Washington briefly ahead of the launch, according to US officials.
The Kremlin said Russia had not been technically obliged to warn the United States about the strike because the missile used had been intermediate-range rather than intercontinental, but added that Moscow had informed the US 30 minutes before the launch anyway.
Russian military expert Anatoly Matviychuk said it could carry six to eight conventional or nuclear warheads, and was probably already in service.
Putin said the missile travelled at 10 times the speed of sound [Mach 10] and so could not be intercepted, with Russian sources saying the range was 3,1000 miles.
It also appeared to have multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles: separate warheads able to hit different targets.
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