Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile attack on Ukraine on Thursday, November 21. This, after Ukraine fired US and British missiles at targets inside Russia this week.
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00:00Russia launched an intercontinental ballistic missile attack on Ukraine on Thursday, November
00:0521.
00:06It is the first known use in the war of a weapon designed to deliver nuclear strikes
00:10thousands of kilometers away, but there was no suggestion this one was nuclear-armed.
00:16This after Ukraine fired US and British missiles at targets inside Russia this week, despite
00:21warnings by Moscow that this would be seen as a major escalation.
00:25But Washington says Russia's deployment of North Korean ground troops is already an escalation.
00:30The missile attack reportedly caused damage to an industrial enterprise and set off fires
00:34in Dnipro.
00:36Ukraine fired US Atacams missiles into Russia on Tuesday after US President Joe Biden gave
00:41the green light.
00:42On the same day, Russian President Vladimir Putin lowered the threshold for a nuclear
00:46strike to include a broader range of conventional attacks.