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Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov also said that Russia had warned the United States 30 minutes before the launch of the Orešnik missile.

The US Department of Defense, the Pentagon, says that Russia warned the US just before the missile attack on Ukraine.

Deputy Press Secretary of the Ministry of Defence Sabrina Singh described the news channel CNN’s according to the missile as an “experimental medium-range ballistic missile”.

Ukraine has claimed that Russia used an intercontinental ballistic missile in Ukraine for the first time, but several Western authorities have denied the claim.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also stated that Russia had warned the United States 30 minutes before the launch of the Orešnik missile. Peskov told the Russian state news agency Tassi about it. Earlier on Thursday, the president also Vladimir Putin pointed out that Russia will give advance warnings if it uses new weapons.

US Assistant Secretary of State Mallory Stewart on the other hand, said earlier in an interview with that the United States was not aware of the launch of the missile “as far as he knows” in advance.

In the Russian attack on the city of Dnipro, buildings and critical infrastructure were damaged.

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