Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin fires nuclear-capable missile that could reach US days after CIA chief’s visit
Russia has successfully tested a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile that could reach the US, its defence ministry has said.
The missile, which has a range of more than 6,700km, was fired from the Arkhangelsk region in the country’s northwest and reached its designated target at the Kura test site in Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka region.
It comes just days after CIA Director John Ratcliffe had travelled to Moscow to warn Russia off any attack on a NATO member. The Kremlin has said he did not meet president Vladimir Putin during the visit.
Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelensky has ordered his military to increase its long-range drone strikes against Russia to 1,000 per day, up from around 300 currently.
He also said the US had given Kyiv information about a number of meetings in Moscow over the last few days.
In a Telegram post, he wrote: “Today we received information from the American side about the meetings in Moscow that took place these days. There were a number of meetings there.”
