Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday warned of striking “decision-making centres” in Kyiv using Russia’s hypersonic missiles.
This came hours after Moscow launched a massive attack on Ukraine’s energy grid, leaving one million people without power.
Kyiv reported over 90 missiles and around 100 drones fired in the assault. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged allies to take a strong stance against what he called Russian “blackmail.” Putin described the attack as retaliation for Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory using Western-supplied missiles. The nearly three-year conflict has intensified recently, with both sides introducing advanced weaponry ahead of US President-elect Donald Trump’s January inauguration.
“We do not rule out the use of Oreshnik against the military, military-industrial or decision-making centres, including in Kyiv,” Putin told a press conference in the Kazakh capital Astana, referring to the hypersonic missile.
Kyiv’s government district — an area of the capital where multiple government buildings are located — is protected with intense security, but fears for it have risen over the last week.
Russia tested its new Oreshnik ballistic missile on Ukraine last week, and Putin boasted on Thursday that firing several of the weapons at once would have the equivalent force of a nuclear strike, or a “meteorite” hit.
The Kremlin chief said the overnight barrage was a “response to continued attacks on our territory by (US) ATACMS missiles”.
“As I have said repeatedly, there will always be a response from our side.”
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