Putin reveals he launched a brand new IRBM medium vary missile at Ukraine in TV boast – as Russia declares Britain ‘immediately concerned’ in conflict after Kyiv’s Storm Shadow assault

Russian President Vladimir Putin has revealed that his forces carried out a strike with a new medium-range ballistic missile in Ukraine on Thursday as a test.

In a gloating nationwide TV address, Putin warned that the Kremlin could use the new missiles to hit other countries who have provided Ukraine with weapons capable of striking Russia.

This comes after the Russian ambassador to the UK declared that Britain is now ‘directly involved’ in the Russia/Ukraine war after Kyiv‘s Storm Shadow attack. 

Utilising the British-made missiles, Ukraine struck a military facility in Russia’s Kursk region on Wednesday.

In a rare move of making a statement himself, Putin said in a televised address that Russia carried out ‘testing in combat conditions of one of the newest Russian mid-range missile systems… Our engineers named it Oreshnik’.

The combat tests were performed in response to the aggressive actions of NATO countries against Russia, Putin said.

‘In response to the use of American and British long-range weapons, on November 21 of this year, the Russian armed forces launched a combined strike on one of the facilities of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine,’ Putin said.

‘In combat conditions, one of the newest Russian medium-range missile systems was tested, among other things. In this case, with a ballistic missile in a nuclear-free hypersonic equipment.’

Russian President Vladimir Putin made a nationwide TV address on Thursday