The Times of Ukraine has said that Vladimir Putin could strike the UK with their new Oreshnik hypersonic missiles within “just 20 minutes.”
On Thursday Russian forces attacked Dnipro, Ukraine with a “new type” of missile and originally the Air Force said it was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
There are fears in Kyiv that there will be a major attack and Ukraine cancelled their meeting in Parliament on Friday.
“We were informed about the possible missile threat over the next couple of days [for the] parliament,” said MP Taras Batenko.
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“We’ll see if it happens or not but I see that Putin raised the stakes for Ukrainian people and it’s obvious that Ukraine has to react to this. But more than Ukraine, the international community should react.”
The publication reported that Oreshnik are most likely updating their old Cold War intercontinental RS-26 Rubezh missile.
The Times of Ukraine wrote, Roman Svitan, a reserve colonel in the Ukrainian armed forces said, “Most likely, the designation Oreshnik was invented by Vladimir Putin to create the impression of new missile capabilities and intimidate the West, because there is no information about Oreshnik in the public domain.
“If it was Rubezh, then it has a range of 5,000 to 6,000 kilometres. It will reach London as well.”
They calculated the missile could hit the UK in 20 minutes, Poland in 12 and Germany in 15 minutes.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said there has to be international action after Russia launched the powerful missile on Dnipro on Thursday morning.
He said that Putin is “lying when he says that Ukraine’s use of long-range weapons is some kind of new step.”
President Zelensky added, “The world must react to this. Putin is very sensitive to this. He is testing you, dear partners. He must be stopped. If there is no harsh reaction to Russia’s actions, then they see that this is possible. Putin must feel what his sick ambitions are worth.”
