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Russia’s Ballistic Missile Attack on Ukraine Is an Alarming First
- Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a change in the country's policy for employing nuclear weapons in conflicts.
- Russia attacked the Ukrainian city of Dnipro with a new type of ballistic missile, capable of delivering multiple nuclear warheads to distant targets with little warning.
- This missile attack is the first use of the Oreshnik missile 'under combat conditions'.
- Ukraine fired US-made ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles and UK-supplied Storm Shadow missiles at targets in Russian territory for the first time in recent days.
- Putin said Western air defenses are not capable of destroying the Oreshnik missile in-flight and that Russia would warn Ukraine in advance of similar missile attacks in the future for allowing civilians to escape danger zones.
- Putin said the conflict in Ukraine is 'taking on global dimensions' and that Russia entitled to use missiles against Western countries supplying weapons for Ukraine to use against Russian targets.
- The change in nuclear doctrine authorized by Putin also lowers the threshold for Russia’s use of nuclear weapons to counter a conventional attack that threatens Russian 'territorial integrity'.
- US officials say Russian forces are suffering some 1,200 deaths or injuries per day in the war.
- The UN Human Rights Office recently reported that 11,973 civilians have been killed, including 622 children, since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022.
- Singh called Russia’s invitation of North Korean troops 'escalatory' and said Putin could 'choose to end this war today.'
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