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Politics
Nicholas Cecil

Putin's new missile was flying faster than Mach 11 when it hit Ukraine city, say spy chiefs

The Russian missile that struck the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday flew for 15 minutes and reached a maximum speed of beyond Mach 11, says Kyiv’s top spy agency.

Vladimir Putin said Moscow struck a Ukrainian military facility with a new medium-range, hypersonic ballistic missile known as “Oreshnik”.

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