International New Russian missile: Rutte convenes NATO-Ukraine Council

Following the deployment of a new Russian medium-range missile, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte convenes a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council.

According to an alliance spokesperson, the meeting next Tuesday will deal with the latest Russian attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. Russia fired the new medium-range missile named Oreshnik on Thursday morning.

According to independently unconfirmed Russian information, it can fly at hypersonic speed and cannot be intercepted. Experts assume that it could theoretically also be equipped with nuclear warheads.

Six individual warheads are said to have hit Dnipro on Thursday. They were not of a nuclear nature, Putin said.

According to the alliance, the consultations in Brussels are being organized at the request of the government in Kiev and are taking place at ambassador level. The Nato-Ukraine Council met for the first time last year at the Nato summit in Lithuania at the level of heads of state and government.

The new body was created for exchanges in crisis situations. It is also intended to facilitate closer cooperation until the conditions for Ukraine's admission to NATO are met. These include an end to the Russian war of aggression and reforms in Ukraine.

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