President Putin warned that he could retaliate against countries that supply weapons used against targets in Russia.

Apparently he was referring to the US and UK which he gave this week. Ukrainian The use of long-range missiles was allowed at the border.

The Russian President said his army would “respond with the same determination” to the “escalation of aggressive actions”.

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“We believe that we have the right to use our weapons against the military facilities of countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities,” Putin said in a televised speech. he said.

Storm Shadow missiles supplied by the UK Shots were fired at Russia for the first time this weekJust days after President Biden allowed the same policy change.

President Putin He responded Thursday by saying his military tested a new medium-range missile in an attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

The Russian leader named it Oreshnik, which means hazel tree in Russian, and said air defenses could not destroy it because it was traveling at 10 times the speed of sound.

Ukraine has previously said a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) may have been used in Dnipro, but the Pentagon said it believed it was an experimental medium-range weapon.

It was stated that Russia notified about the launch through nuclear risk reduction channels.

Volodymyr ZelenskyyUkraine’s president said Thursday night that the use of a new missile was a “clear and serious escalation.”

He described it as the second serious escalation this year after North Korean troops were sent to support Russian forces.

Mr. Zelenskyy called on allies for a stronger response, saying in X that the Russian leader was “spitting in the face of those who really want peace to be restored in the world.”

Military experts say modern ICBMs and intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) are extremely difficult to stop.

Meanwhile, Russia’s ambassador told Sky News that Britain’s missile decision was important. significantly changed its involvement in the conflict.

Andrei Kelin said: “England and the United Kingdom are now directly involved in this war, because this firing cannot take place without NATO personnel, without British personnel.”

He called it “a deliberate deception of us” and said he had received many assurances that Storm Shadows would be used only on Ukrainian territory.

But, Russia Ukraine has long used Iranian-made drones to attack its cities.

The ambassador said the move by the US and UK “seriously escalated the situation” and that the West should carefully consider Russia’s new rules on the use of nuclear weapons, as underestimating the risk of escalation was “dangerous”.

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This week, President Putin once again raised the specter of nuclear weapons, something he has done many times in recent years. Approved changes that lower the threshold for such a strike.

Many dismissed the move as empty nonsense, but Russia’s ambassador told Sky News he hoped the change would be “carefully considered by Western experts.”

Russia’s defense ministry also claimed on Thursday that two British-made Storm Shadow missiles, six HIMARS rockets and 67 drones were shot down.

Experts say the use of Western missiles in Russia is unlikely to change the course of the war, but could put Russian forces in a more vulnerable position and complicate logistics.