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

Russian resident Vladimir Putin on Thursday threatened to strike “decision-making centres” in Kyiv with Russia’s new hypersonic missile, hours after Moscow pummelled Ukraine’s energy grid in an attack that left a million people without power.

Russian attacks have not so far struck government buildings in the Ukrainian capital. Air defences heavily protect Kyiv, but Putin says Russia’s Oreshnik hypersonic missile, which it fired for the first time at a Ukrainian city last week, is incapable of being intercepted.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that a massive Russian overnight attack on Ukrainian infrastructure was a response to Kyiv's attacks on Russian regions using longer-range Western missiles. Ukrainian officials said that Russia had unleashed its second big attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure this month on Thursday,

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would use all weapons at its disposal against Ukraine if Kyiv were to acquire nuclear arms. The New York Times reported last week that some unidentified Western officials had suggested U.

Vladimir Putin, Kremlin leader, stated that Russia's huge strike on Ukraine on 28 November was in reaction to strikes on the territory of the Russian Federation. Source: Russian state-owned news agencies RIA Novosti and RBK,

Vladimir Putin warned on Thursday at a press conference in Kazakhstan that he would use all available weapons against Ukraine if Kyiv acquired nuclear weapons. "We will not allow it. We'll be watching their every move,

The Russian leader says the Oreshnik ballistic missile could be used to strike ‘decision-making centres’ in the Ukrainian capital.

Putin said Russia's massive aerial bombardment of Ukraine's energy facilities was in response to Kyiv firing Western-supplied missiles into its territory.