by Martin Haffner Associate Editor
Russia has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine The Soviet Union launched an overnight attack using intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) for the first time since the conflict began, Ukraine has said.
The Ukrainian air force said it shot down six ICBMs out of a total of nine fired from Russia’s Astrakhan region towards the city of Dnipro.
Two people were wounded as a result of the attack, and an industrial facility and a rehabilitation center for people with disabilities were damaged, according to local officials.
ICBMs are long-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. Earlier this week, Vladimer Putin signed a revised nuclear doctrine which lowered the threshold over which the country could fire nuclear weapons.