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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Andrew Roth in Washington

Putin says Russia will use experimental missile again after Ukraine strike

Vladimir Putin at a meeting with his defence ministry and defence industry representatives
Vladimir Putin said Russia had enough of the missiles to continue to test them in ‘combat conditions’. Photograph: Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Kremlin pool/EPA

Vladimir Putin has vowed to launch more strikes using an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile as Ukraine decried the testing of the nuclear-capable weapon on its territory as an “international crime”.

Speaking at a defence conference on Friday, Putin contested US claims that Russia possessed only a “handful” of the high-speed ballistic missiles, saying that the military had enough to continue to test them in “combat conditions” and would put them into serial production.

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