Blinken hints at lifting UKR restrictions on strikes in RUS

Ukraine said Russia struck its territory with an intercontinental ballistic missile on Thursday, in what would mark the first use of such a weapon in the war, but Moscow refused to comment and Western officials were reported as disputing Kyiv’s claim. The missile carried conventional, rather than nuclear, warheads, although a Ukrainian government official said it was an attempt to “frighten the world with nuclear weapons”...

Russia did not fire an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at Ukraine on Thursday, a U.S. official and a military officer with knowledge of the matter told NBC News, disputing a claim by Kyiv... U.S. officials said the weapon was in fact an experimental intermediate range ballistic missile and that Russia has a limited supply of that particular missile. Intermediate range ballistic missiles typically have a range of less than 3,500 miles...