{"id":112922,"date":"2025-05-18T23:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/112922\/"},"modified":"2025-05-18T23:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T23:36:09","slug":"russia-set-to-launch-terrifying-missile-with-6200-mile-range-after-huge-attack-on-ukraine-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/112922\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia set to launch terrifying missile with 6,200-mile range after huge attack on Ukraine | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia<\/a> is preparing to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile in a threatening show of force, according to Ukraine<\/a>\u2019s military intelligence. Kyiv\u2019s Main Directorate of Intelligence, known as the GUR, said Russia<\/a> plans to carry out a \u201ctraining and combat\u201d launch of the weapon on Monday night to intimidate Ukraine<\/a> and the West.<\/p>\n

The GUR said the RS-24 intercontinental ballistic missile has a range of more than 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) \u2014 reportedly nearly double the distance from Russia<\/a> to the UK<\/a>. In a post on Telegram<\/a>, the agency said Russia<\/a> plans to launch the missile \u201cin order to demonstratively pressure and intimidate Ukraine<\/a>, as well as the EU<\/a> and NATO<\/a> member states\u201d. It said the missile, equipped with training ammunition, will be launched from Russia<\/a>\u2019s Sverdlovsk region.<\/p>\n

Ukraine<\/a>\u2019s air force said 216 drones were intercepted or lost.<\/p>\n

Officials said a woman, 28, was killed and others were injured, including a four-year-old child.<\/p>\n

“Russia<\/a> has a clear goal \u2013 to continue killing civilians,\u201d said Ukraine<\/a>\u2019s Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko.<\/p>\n

The strikes came less than a day after a Russian drone attack on a civilian bus left nine dead and seven injured in an attack that Ukrainian officials called a “war crime”.<\/p>\n

Ukraine<\/a> and Russia<\/a> hold their first face-to-talks since 2022 in Turkey earlier this week.<\/p>\n

There was no breakthrough in the talks but both nations did agree to swapping 1,000 prisoners of war each<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian defence minister Rustem Umerov said talks at \u201cleaders\u2019 level\u201d would be the next step following the talks.<\/p>\n

Volodymyr Zelensky<\/a> was not in Istanbul for the meeting but stressed Ukraine<\/a> was “ready to take the fastest possible steps for the sake of real peace”.<\/p>\n

Donald Trump<\/a> says he will speak to both Vladimir Putin and Mr Zelensky over the phone on Monday<\/a> as he looks to end the \u201cbloodbath\u201d in Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He said he will speak to the Russian President first, before then talking to Mr Zelensky<\/a> and NATO<\/a> nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia is preparing to launch an intercontinental ballistic missile in a threatening show of force, according to Ukraine\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[332,7661,657,17961,753,333,658],"class_list":{"0":"post-112922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-russia","9":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","10":"tag-ukraine","11":"tag-ukraine-conflict","12":"tag-ukraine-war","13":"tag-vladimir-putin","14":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114531466171046643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}