In a stark warning to the West, President Putin said the attack with the intermediate-range Oreshnik missile was in retaliation for Kyiv’s use of U.S. and British longer-range missiles.

Russia's new intermediate-range ballistic missile has NATO members on edge after the missiles were used in a strike on Ukraine early Thursday morning.

Russia has captured more territory in eastern Ukraine, with Nato set to hold emergency talks next week amid warnings that Russia will increase the production of a new, hypersonic ballistic missile. Russia’s Defence Ministry said its forces have captured the settlement of Novodmytrivka in Ukraine’s Donetsk region,