According to Ukraine’s General Staff, Russian forces launched the ICBM from the southern Astrakhan region, whose capital city lies around 650 kilometers (403 miles) east of the border with Ukraine.
That alleged launch came amid an overnight Russian missile attack on the city of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine. Military officials said air defense systems shot down six rockets.
City authorities later said that a rehabilitation center for the disabled was damaged in the attack.
Ukraine’s military did not say whether its air defense systems also downed the reported ICBM during the strikes on Dnipro. It did not provide any further details about that launch.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov later on Thursday declined to comment on Ukraine’s claim and redirected journalists’ questions to the Russian military.
AzVision.az
