Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed this Thursday, November 21, that his forces struck Ukraine with a new medium-range ballistic missile, after a strike on the city of Dnipro which did not carry a nuclear charge.
“Our engineers called it ‘Orechnik,'” Vladimir Putin said in an address to the nation. According to him, this strike targeted “a site of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin also considered that the conflict in Ukraine had taken on a “global character”, blaming the West for authorizing the use of American and European missiles on Russian soil.
“From the moment (these missiles were fired at Russia), and as we had repeatedly emphasized (beforehand), the conflict provoked by the West in Ukraine took on the elements of a (conflict ) of a global nature”, said the Russian president, affirming however that the Western missile strikes fired by Ukraine towards Russian territory had failed.
“We have always been ready, and we still are, to resolve all problems by peaceful means, but we are also ready to deal with any developments,” he said in the speech broadcast on Russian television . “If anyone still doubts it, it’s useless. There will always be an answer,” he warned.