Russia hits the Dnieper with an intercontinental missile

Russia attacked the Dnieper with an intercontinental ballistic missile to force Ukraine to abandon further long-range weapons strikes on Russian territory. Retired US Major General Mark McCarley told CNN.

He noted that this is how Moscow wants to show Ukraine that next time it can strike Kyiv with an intercontinental ballistic missile.

“One could say that Russia fired first at the Dnieper as a statement suggesting that if Ukraine does not abandon the use of, say, the recently supplied US ATACMS and Storm Shadow from the UK, then Russia will use the same…