Putin threatens to strike Kiev with new medium-range missile

Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to fire the military's new medium-range missiles at further targets in Ukraine, including the capital Kiev.

The Kremlin is currently selecting targets for further strikes, he said at a meeting of the Russian-led military alliance the Collective Security Treaty Organization in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana.

"These could be military buildings, defence companies or decision-making centres in Kiev," Putin said.

Speaking of last week's strike against the Ukrainian industrial city of Dnipro with the new Oreshnik ballistic missile, he said: "We were forced to carry out the test under war conditions in response to the attacks on the Bryansk and Kursk areas with Western weapons, with ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles."

Putin again praised the Russian weapons system as unique, saying that when used in a bundle, its destructive power is comparable to that of a nuclear bomb.

He said Russia has fired 100 missiles and 466 combat drones at Ukraine in the last two days alone, describing the massive attacks as a response to Western arms deliveries to Ukraine.