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Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to fire the military’s new medium-range missiles at further targets in Ukraine, including the capital Kiev.<\/p>\n
The Kremlin is currently selecting targets for further strikes, he said at a meeting of the Russian-led military alliance the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana.<\/p>\n
“These could be military buildings, defence companies or decision-making centres in Kiev,” Putin said.<\/p>\n
Speaking of last week’s strike against the Ukrainian industrial city of Dnipro with the new Oreshnik ballistic missile, he said: “We were forced to carry out the test under war conditions in response to the attacks on the Bryansk and Kursk areas with Western weapons, with ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles.”<\/p>\n
Putin again praised the Russian weapons system as unique, saying that when used in a bundle, its destructive power is comparable to that of a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n
He said Russia has fired 100 missiles and 466 combat drones at Ukraine in the last two days alone, describing the massive attacks as a response to Western arms deliveries to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n