BRITAIN and Nato are set to hold emergency crunch talks about the conflict with Russia – after despot Vladimir Putin vowed to fire more hypersonic missiles into Ukraine.
It comes after his forces fired an “Oreshnik” ballistic rocket at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday – with chilling footage capturing warheads raining down from the sky.
Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin boasts about his new missile after an attack on Ukraine
Chilling footage showed missiles raining down on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro
A house in Dnipro was set on fire in the missile blitz
Kyiv has said Russia may have 10 of the terrifying weapons in its arsenal.
And tyrant Putin gloated about his “newest” toy after the attack – vowing to mass produce dozens more.
Now military alliance Nato and Ukraine are due to hold emergency talks next Tuesday, Sky reports.
Meanwhile Nato members including the UK will discuss the threat posed by Russia’s missiles and fears about Ukraine’s front line being on the verge of collapse.
Deranged Vlad said in a meeting with military chiefs: “We will continue these tests, including in combat conditions, depending on the situation and character of the security threats posted to Russia.”
He added that he has “a stockpile of such systems ready for use”.
The attack, Putin said, was in response to Ukraine firing western long-range missiles into Russia last week.
Kyiv launched US ATACMS missiles against Putin’s territory overnight on November 11 – and British Storm Shadow rockets just two days later.
While Russia’s Oreshnik rocket was fitted just with conventional warheads on Thursdays blast – Putin warned that it could be even more devastating if used with nuclear weapons.
The Pentagon also said that Moscow could modify the weapon to carry a nuclear payload.
“It could be refitted to certainly carry different types of conventional or nuclear warheads,” spokesperson Sabrina Singh warned.
Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte today met with President-elect Donald Trump in Palm Beach, Floriday.
The two leaders met to discuss “the range of global security issues facing the Alliance,” a Nato spokesperson said.
Trump is expected to push harder on Nato members to increase their defence spending contributions during his second term.
Head of Russia’s strategic missile forces vowed it could reach targets across Europe.
And Putin this week said military targets in the US and UK were high on his hit list.
He said: “Russia considers itself entitled to use weapons against military facilities of countries that permit the use of their weapons against Russia.
“Since this moment, as we have underscored repeatedly, the conflict in Ukraine, provoked by the West, has acquired elements of global nature.”
The Kremlin later double down: “Russia has demonstrated its ability to respond to Western actions by using ballistic missiles.”
The Oreshnik is an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) based on an older Russian Rubezh model.
Both are part of the same family as the original RS-24 Yars ICBM – a ferocious Russian weapon.
A chilling simulation video shows how these weapons can operate – with an RS-24 firing off multiple warheads in the Earth’s atmosphere before they rain down on unsuspecting territory below.
A rocket blast above Dnipro
