NATO and Ukraine meet after Russian attack with new missile “that can reach all of Europe”

NATO and Ukraine will meet in emergency on Tuesday, after Russia attacked a city in the center of the country with an experimental hypersonic ballistic missile. The war is escalating.

On Thursday, Ukraine said that Russia fired without a nuclear warhead, statements that were later corrected by a senior US official, who described the weapon as a missile. “mid-range experimental”.

The Russian President Vladimir Putin took over later responsible for firing a new medium-range missile.

“Our engineers called it Orechnik” – said Putin – an intercontinental missile has a range of more than 5,500 kilometers.

In a clear warning to the West, President Vladimir Putin said in a nationally televised speech that the attack was a retaliation for the fact that Kiev used long-range missiles from the United States and Great Britain, capable of reaching Russian territory.

“Nobody in the world has such weapons,” said Putin with a ‘thin smile’as described by (North American national radio).

“Sooner or later, other important countries will also have them. We are aware that they are being developed”, he added.

The Russian Head of State also guaranteed that missile testing will continue“including in combat, depending on the situation and character of security threats created for Russia”.

Putin said these weapons are so powerful that the use of several of them equipped with conventional warheads in one attack would can be as devastating as a nuclear weapons attack.

Quoted by NPR, Sergei Karakayev, head of Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces, confirmed that the Oreshnik could hit targets across Europeconfirming Putin’s thesis that it can be equated with nuclear or conventional warheads.

The Atlantic Alliance (NATO) and Ukraine meet in Brussels on Tuesday to discuss the Russian attack with hypersonic ballistic missiles on Ukrainian territory – the order from kyiv.

For his part, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov blamed this scenario on West, for “reckless decisions and actions”by supplying weapons to Ukraine to attack Russia.