Ukrainian media identifies Russian ICBM fired at Dnipro as RS-26 Rubezh

Russia has demonstrated its ability to respond to Western actions by using ballistic missiles."

The Kremlin later said on their new missile

Serial production of this missile began in the late 2000s, suggesting that the missile used by the Russian military on Thursday may not feature the advanced technologies Putin claimed in his video address,

analysts observe

Sabrina Singhdeputy Pentagon Press Secretary

It could be refitted to certainly carry different types of conventional or nuclear warheads,

Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said

I believe that the United States made a mistake by unilaterally destroying the treaty on the elimination of intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles in 2019 under a far-fetched pretext,

the Russian president said, referring to the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) treaty

The RS-26 was always [a] prime candidate,

Lewis said

This was a new type of lethal capability that was employed on the battlefield, so that’s certainly a concern to us,

Singh said

Maria Zakharovarussian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman

We are open to negotiations. We are ready to consider any realistic, nonpoliticized initiative — of course,

Zakharova said

Vladimir Putinpresident

Russia reserves the right to use weapons against military targets in countries permitting strikes on Russian soil,

Putin said

Vladimir Putinpresident

The missiles attack targets at a speed of MACH 10. That's 2.5 miles per second,

Putin said according to a translation

While we take all threats against Ukraine seriously, it is important to keep a few key facts in mind: Russia likely possesses only a handful of these experimental missiles,

the official told Fox News Digital

It is a base that serves the purpose of defence, not attack,

Mr Wronski said

Peter Rickettslord

It is an important move and it pulls against, undermines the narrative that Putin had been trying to establish that it was fine for Russia to rain down Iranian drones and North Korean missiles on Ukraine but a reckless escalation for Ukraine to use Western-supplied weapons at legitimate targets in Russia,

said Peter Ricketts, a former UK national security adviser who now sits in the House of Lords

Dmitry Peskovkremlin spokesman

We have stressed in the context of our doctrine that Russia is taking a responsible position to make maximum effort not to allow such a conflict,

Peskov said

To the contrary, it makes every effort to expand the war,

he added

This leads to undermining strategic stability, increasing strategic risks and, as a result, to an increase in the overall level of nuclear danger,

she said

Whether it was an ICBM or an IRBM, the range isn’t the important factor,

Fabian Hoffmann, a doctoral research fellow at Oslo University who specialises in missile technology and nuclear strategy, told Associated Press

The deployment of the Oreshnik system was a response to US plans to produce and deploy intermediate- and short-range missiles … In the event of an escalation, Russia will respond decisively and symmetrically,

Putin said

While we are all waiting for conclusions about what Russia has hit and whether it was an intercontinental ballistic missile, which could potentially carry a nuclear payload, it seems to me that if this is the case, Russia has moved to a new level of confrontation,

said Elina Beketova from the Center for European Policy Analysis

There were multiple thundering sounds—we didn't know what was happening,

the 41-year-old told Newsweek, hours after Thursday morning's barrage

You are always scared when something explodes, but we are used to this. We can detect 'arrivals', antiair missiles going out or midair interceptions,

he said