Vladimir Putin unleashed a new hypersonic ballistic missile on Ukraine in retaliation for its use of Western weapons to strike Russia. This morning’s attack, using a mid-range hypersonic Oreshnik missile fired from Russia’s southern Astrakhan region,

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday Russia hit a Ukrainian aerospace plant with an experimental hypersonic missile in the first use of the nuclear-capable missile against Ukraine.

Russia’s use of a new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missile in Ukraine is not only escalating the war but lobbing an unmistakable threat at Europe and the West.

Ukraine claimed Russia used an ICBM in a recent attack, but Moscow said it was an IRBM, the "Oreshnik," targeting Dnipro.