Russia fired a powerful hypersonic missile overnight at a target in Ukraine near the border with NATO-member Poland, in what Kyiv’s European allies described as an attempt to intimidate them from supporting Ukraine. Moscow said it fired the Oreshnik missile in response to what it calls an attempted drone attack on one of President Vladimir Putin’s residences last month, which Ukraine denies and the United States has said did not happen.
It was only the second time Russia has fired the Oreshnik at Ukraine, and came amid a night of air attacks that Ukrainian authorities said also killed four people in Kyiv, knocked out power in the capital and damaged the Qatari embassy there.