The United Nations Security Council is set to hold an emergency meeting on Monday after Russia used its new Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile in a major strike on Ukraine.
The missile was fired on Friday at a target in western Ukraine as part of a broader overnight drone and missile assault. Ukrainian authorities said the attack killed at least four people in Kyiv, wounded more than 20 others and left nearly 6,000 apartment buildings without heating as temperatures dropped well below freezing.
Russia has claimed the Oreshnik strike was retaliation for an attempted Ukrainian drone attack on one of President Vladimir Putin’s residences, an allegation Kyiv denies. Europe has also condemned Russia’s latest attack as a “clear escalation” and warned it was an attempt to “instil fear”.
US president Donald Trump said on Friday that Putin “fears the United States” but not Europe. In comments likely to cause concern in Europe, the US president said that a mission to capture the Russian President, mirroring the operation to seize Nicolas Maduro, would “not be necessary”.
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