Ukraine-Russia war latest: Nato plans emergency meeting as Putin hints at striking West
Putin vowed to launch more intermediate-range ballistic missile targeting Ukraine
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Your support makes all the difference.Nato and Ukraine plan to hold an emergency meeting next week after Russian president Vladimir Putin threatened to strike the West in a coded message.
Mr Putin said Russia’s use of its experimental “Oreshnik” missile, targeting Ukraine’s Dnipro city, was a direct response to Ukrainian forces striking Russia with US and British missiles.
“We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against the military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities,” the Russian president said on Friday.
He claimed the new missile could be fitted with several conventional warheads and could be as devastating as strategic nuclear weapons.
Mr Putin vowed to launch more strikes with the intermediate-range ballistic missile, adding that Russia had a stockpile “ready for use”.
After the Russian attack on Dnipro, Ukraine has begun seeking advanced air defence systems from its partners, and Nato is planning to hold emergency talks on Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
Meanwhile, Poland’s prime minister warned of a real risk of a global conflict breaking out.
British man admits arson on Ukraine-linked London property
A British man admitted on Friday that he carried out an arson attack on a London commercial property linked to Ukraine, and that he had accepted pay from a foreign intelligence agency, in a case prosecutors have linked to Russia.
Jake Reeves, 22, pleaded guilty at London’s Woolwich crown court to charges of aggravated arson on the premises belonging to a “Mr X” on an industrial estate in east London in March.
He also admitted a charge under the UK’s new National Security Act (NSA) of obtaining a material benefit from a foreign intelligence service.
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