On Thursday, Moscow used a medium-range ballistic missile against Kyiv that followed Ukraine's use of U.S.- and British-supplied long-range ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles to strike targets in Russia for the first time.

Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to strike the UK with a new ballistic missile after using the weapon to hit a target in Ukraine.Downing Street condemned Mr Putin for further escalating the conflict by using a ballistic missile with a range of “several thousand kilometres” against the city of Dnipro.