KYIV (Reuters) – Russia fired an intercontinental ballistic missile from the Astrakhan region on Thursday morning in an attack on Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force said.
This is the first time that Russia has used this type of long-range missile capable of carrying a powerful payload since the start of its large-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
The use of this weapon comes after Ukraine’s use on Tuesday and Wednesday of long-range American and British missiles to strike deep into Russian territory, also a first in the conflict, against which Moscow had been warning for months .
The Russian attack Thursday morning targeted businesses and critical infrastructure in Dnipro, in east-central Ukraine, the Ukrainian air force said, without specifying what the intercontinental ballistic missile was targeting or whether it had caused damage, nor the exact model of this projectile.
These missiles have a range of several thousand kilometers and can be equipped with nuclear warheads or conventional charges.
The Ukrainian army also said it shot down six Kh-101 cruise missiles fired by Russia during the attack.
(Written by Anastasiia Malenko and Tom Balmforth, French version Bertrand Boucey, edited by Kate Entringer and Blandine Hénault)
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