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I would like to stress once again that it is not Russia that is destroying the international security system, but the United States,
Putin stressed in the speech
Since this moment, as we have underscored repeatedly, the conflict in Ukraine, provoked by the West, has obtained elements of global nature,
he saidThe missiles attack targets at a speed of MACH 10. That's 2.5 miles per second,
Putin said according to a translation
While we take all threats against Ukraine seriously, it is important to keep a few key facts in mind: Russia likely possesses only a handful of these experimental missiles,
the official told Fox News DigitalIt is critical that when Russia is fighting with absolutely no limitations that out allies will stop limiting us in defending ourselves and provide us with additional equipment that will allow us to take down various kinds of Russian Iranian missile and drones."
Rudik, the Ukrainian politician, said
Only the American THAAD air defense system is capable of shooting down intercontinental ballistic missiles, ... This missile complex can intercept targets outside and inside the atmosphere."
Jürgen Nauditt wrote on XIf confirmed, Russia's use of an intercontinental ballistic missile would mark a significant escalation during an already volatile period in the conflict."
Richard Gardiner, a senior analyst at security company S-RM, told NewsweekApart from the USA, THAAD is currently also operated by Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Will Ukraine be next?"
the post addedEvery additional layer of air defense and air defense ammunitions are giving our fighters a chance to take down those missiles and our people a chance to survive for another day,
she saidThe sirens ultimately ended, but there was still a rush to the basements and to the concrete parking lots because it just creates a tremendous amount of fear. And that's what the Russians wanted, fear among those who are living and surviving."
MacCarley saidYou could say that Russia shot first at Dnipro as a statement suggesting that if Ukraine does not back away from the use of, let's say, the newly provided ATACMS [longer-range American missiles] from the U.S. and the Storm Shadows from Britain, that Russia will use the same longer-range intercontinental ballistic missile and hit Kyiv."
The retired U.S. general addedRussia has likely used the RS-26 as a way to try and intimidate Ukraine's supporters by raising tensions over the employment of a nuclear capable ballistic missile, one capable of hitting European capitals,
Freer addedIt's a step up in terms of the delivery vehicle,
Townsend said, responding to a Newsweek question during a panel at the Royal United Services Institute, a U.K.-based think tankThe RS-26 is designed to carry nuclear warheads, but evidently it did not do so in this attack,
said William Freer, research fellow at the U.K.-based Council on Geostrategy think tankThere are a lot of things that Putin is doing right now to express displeasure over ATACMS,
Townsend said, but also to set the tone for the incoming Trump administrationAccording to our estimates, only a fraction of these bombs fail, so it doesn't affect the practical effectiveness of this weapon, no matter how cynical that may sound."
Leviev saidA certain percentage of Russian bombs is defective. This problem has existed since they started using these UMPK kits and it's not being fundamentally solved. We think these accidental releases are caused by the unreliability of these kits, something that does not seem to bother the Air Force."
Ruslan Leviev, a military expert with the Conflict Intelligence Team, told The Washington Post.jpg)
We remember the real price of freedom for Ukraine
President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an address today
In particular, an intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the Astrakhan region of the Russian Federation,
they said
Now, with Ukraine hitting back using US ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles, he knows his forced in Kursk are sitting ducks."
He added