President Vladimir Putin warned that his forces could strike “decision-making centers” in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with new ballistic missiles as retaliation for attacks on Russia using Western missiles.
President Vladimir Putin warned that his forces could strike “decision-making centers” in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with new ballistic missiles as retaliation for attacks on Russia using Western missiles.
“The Defense Ministry and the General Staff are selecting targets to hit on Ukrainian territory,” Putin said during a regional security meeting in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on Thursday. “These could be military facilities, defense industry enterprises or decision-making centers in Kyiv.”
Russia has said it will hit back at Ukraine for recent attacks using U.S.-supplied ATACMS and U.K.-made Storm Shadow long-range missiles as the nearly three-year war on Ukraine continues to escalate.
The U.S. last week allowed Kyiv to strike Russian territory with weapons supplied by Washington for the first time since the start of Moscow’s invasion in February 2022.
