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CNN: Russia "trying to send a message" to West with alleged ICBM strike, says analyst
21 novembre 2024
Russia may be “trying to send a message” to Kyiv’s Western backers in a week of creeping escalation, a military analyst said after the Ukrainian military accused Moscow of firing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at Ukraine for the first time.
Although an ICBM can be used to deliver a nuclear warhead, Thursday morning’s attack on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region was not nuclear.
But the use of the powerful long-range weapon may have been intended to send a signal to the West, he said, after Ukraine this week fired American ATACMS and British-French-made Storm Shadow missiles deep into Russia for the first time.
But it is “important” that Ukraine and its Western allies “don’t back down,” he said.
“If indeed this is a signal to the West to back down and an implicit nuclear threat, then if we do back down, the Russians are only going to do this again – and again, and again, and again,” he said.