Moscow on Thursday launched an intercontinental ballistic missile at Ukraine for the first time, Kyiv said, marking the latest escalation of the conflict after Ukraine fired Western-supplied long-range missiles on Russia.
The Ukrainian Air Force said Russian forces had used the missile in an early morning attack on the city of Dnipro, while a source confirmed to AFP it was the first such use of the weapon by Moscow since the invasion in 2022.
The Kremlin refused to comment on the Ukrainian allegations.
Asked whether Moscow fired the missile, which is designed to carry both conventional and nuclear warheads and can hit targets thousands of kilometers away, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said he had “nothing to say on this topic.”
The Ukrainian Air Force confirmed that Russia struck the Ukrainian city of Dnipro with a conventionally armed ICBM this morning, marking the first combat use of an ICBM in history.
Footage from Dnipro showed glowing reentry vehicles hitting the ground around 5 AM local time. pic.twitter.com/PWTGajH9bT
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) November 21, 2024
