Russia and Ukraine exchanged drone and missile strikes on Monday.
Tensions have increased since the use of a latest generation Russian ballistic weapon on Ukrainian territory.
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Amid escalating tensions, Russia and Ukraine exchanged drone and missile strikes on Monday. Moscow thus claimed to have shot down eight missiles coming from Ukraine, as well as American-made aerial bombs.
Russia struck Ukraine last week with a latest generation intermediate-range ballistic missile (up to 5,500 km) without nuclear warhead, the Orechnik, and promised to increase this type of attacks if kyiv continued to use Western missiles against Russian territory.
President Vladimir Putin, who ordered the invasion of Ukraine almost three years ago, also threatened to strike countries supplying such weapons to the Ukrainians, saying the conflict had taken a “global character“by their fault.
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Various Russian officials, including the president, also discussed the possible use of nuclear weapons, after kyiv struck military targets on Russian territory with American ATACMS and British Storm Shadows, missiles with a range of a few hundred of kilometers. Russian doctrine in this area has also been amended to facilitate the use of atomic bombs.
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