President Putin denied claims from Kyiv that Russia had launched an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time in combat on Thursday, instead saying the projectile was a new “medium-range missile tested in response to western aggression”.

In an apparent reference to Ukraine’s use of western-made long-range missiles to strike within Russia for the first time this week, Putin said that “in case of escalation we’ll respond symmetrically”.

In response to the firing of US-made Atacms missiles and Franco-British Storm Shadows into Russia’s border regions this week, Putin said that “such actions won’t influence the situation in Ukraine”. He added: “The conflict in Ukraine has acquired elements of a global character.”

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