“Ukraine is the first country in the world against which an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was used,” says the news channel 24 repeating a statement from the Strategic Communications Center of the country's armed forces. According to the online daily Ukrainian Truth, it would be an RS-26 Rubezh missile, fired from Astrakhan, Russia.
In his video call of November 21, reports the Ukrainian version of the BBC, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke “a new Russian missile. All the characteristics – the speed, the altitude – indicate that it was an intercontinental ballistic missile.” “It is obvious that Putin is using Ukraine as a testing ground,” he added.
Little information is currently circulating on the consequences of this strike, but the news has left most Ukrainian observers perplexed. “Did Russia really shoot Ukraine with an RS-26 for the first time in history?” wonders like this BBC.ua. For military expert Mykola Melnyk, interviewed by the site Comments, these are “sounds of nuclear boots” :
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