Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to strike the UK with a new ballistic missile after using the weapon to hit a target in Ukraine.Downing Street condemned Mr Putin for further escalating the conflict by using a ballistic missile with a range of “several thousand kilometres” against the city of Dnipro.

The UK government recently supplied Ukraine with dozens more Storm Shadow cruise missiles, according to people familiar with the matter, a first under Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who has pledged continued support for the country’s war against Russia.

Ukraine may possess an even larger number of Western missiles, which it can use to conduct strikes deep into Russia. According to Bloomberg, citing its sources, Kyiv is believed to have received a new batch of conventional,

Ukraine has reportedly deployed UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles against Russian targets, a significant escalation given Russia’s updated nuclear doctrine. -This doctrine now allows for a nuclear response to conventional strikes on Russian soil using weapons from nuclear powers like the UK or the US.

Sir Keir Starmer has not confirmed that the UK is supplying the precision weapons - but they are understood to have been used by Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia last week.

The United Kingdom has secretly delivered dozens of Storm Shadow cruise missiles to Ukraine, Bloomberg reported on November 26. This marks the first such shipment under Prime Minister Keir Starmer and comes as Kyiv faces a critical shortage of long-range munitions.

Russian deputy Anatoly Wasserman claims that Vladimir Putin has a secret weapon that remains unknown to the public. The new Oreshnik missile, launched on November 21 over the Ukrainian Dnipro River, is just the beginning,

Hundreds of troops are believed to have been killed after the missiles struck an underground bunker in Russia.