The Jerusalem Post reports: “Russia fired an experimental hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at the city of Dnipro on Thursday in response to the West allowing Kyiv to strike Russian territory with advanced weapons, in a further escalation of the 33-month-old war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged the attack in a televised address to the nation on Thursday night and said that Moscow successfully struck a Ukrainian military facility with a new ballistic missile known as ‘Oreshnik’  and warned that more could follow, according to Reuters.

‘A regional conflict in Ukraine previously provoked by the West has acquired elements of a global character,’ Putin said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said an attack on Ukraine with a new type of ballistic missile was a ‘clear and severe escalation in the scale and brutality of this war.’

Zelensky said Putin’s acknowledgment of the attack provided ‘yet more proof that Russia has no interest in peace’ in a post on X/Twitter on Thursday…”