Western missiles in Russia: the conflict has taken on a “global” character, warns Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday in an address to the nation that the conflict in Ukraine had taken on a “global character”, blaming Westerners who authorized 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.

Vladimir Putin also announced that Russian 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 “, he said. According to him, this strike targeted “a site of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex”.