Assertion comes after the Kremlin accused Ukraine of attacking Vladimir Putin’s palace in Novgorod
Did Ukraine target Putin’s residence or is Russian claim a ploy to sway Trump?
Russia said its latest nuclear-capable missile system has been deployed in Belarus, a day after Moscow claimed that Ukraine had carried out a large-scale drone attack on Vladimir Putin’s residence.
Footage released by Russia’s ministry of defence showed the new Oreshnik missile trundling through a snowy forest. Soldiers were seen disguising combat vehicles with green netting and raising a flag at an airbase in eastern Belarus, close to the Russian border.
The video appeared part of a choreographed attempt to intimidate Europe and to prepare Russians for a further escalation in the already brutal war against Ukraine. The deployment symbolically reduces the time it would take for a Russian missile to hit an EU capital.
