Russia has launched its new hypersonic ballistic Oreshnik missile at Ukraine, striking a city just 60 miles from the Nato border of Poland. Moscow has claimed it was fired in response to an attempted Ukrainian drone strike on one of Vladimir Putin’s residences,

Russia used a hypersonic, nuclear-capable missile against Ukraine in an attack on Thursday night, Moscow said, as Kyiv warned of a “grave threat” to the region as a whole.

For only the second time in the nearly four-year-old war, it used a powerful, new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine on Friday, in a clear warning to Kyiv's Nato allies.