If confirmed, firing of weapon would mark first time missile – which can carry nuclear payload – has been used

London has reportedly joined Washington in approving long-range missile strikes

The deployment of Kim Jong-un’s troops has added fuel to the growing fire in recent weeks. Now there are claims Vladimir Putin has put them to use.

Two months before leaving office, US President Joe Biden has lifted restrictions preventing Kyiv from using the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) for strikes deep into Russian territory that could help defend its territorial gains in Russia's Kursk region. Today, Ukraine launched the US-made missiles onto Russian soil for the first time. Here's what you need to know about the long-range ballistic missiles.

Air defenses have intercepted five US-made projectiles and damaged another, the Defense Ministry in Moscow has said

The French daily originally reported that France and the UK had given permission for their missiles to be used for strikes deep inside Russia

The Biden administration's decision on Sunday to allow Ukraine to use US-supplied long-range missiles to strike Russian territory could help it defend its foothold in Russia's Kursk region, but may have come too late to be a gamechanger overall in the war, military analysts say. 

The Ukrainian President has seen his nation under siege from Russia, now he has made a huge call about how the war will end.

Kiev is against Western leaders talking to Moscow about negotiating an end to the conflict

The two leaders have discussed the Ukraine conflict, with the German chancellor calling on Moscow to hold peace talks with Kiev

Russia stepped up its attacks on the Ukrainian capital early on Wednesday with its first combined drone and missile attack since the summer. Officials said one man was wounded by falling debris from a downed drone in a suburb of Kyiv.

Nearly all would raise their hands to go, ex-military defectors explain, owing to regime loyalty, promise of higher status and a glimpse of the outside world.

The President-elect boasts he will end the Ukraine war “within 24 hours” – but there is rising panic about how he could make that happen.

Russians see Donald Trump’s win as a victory for conservative, isolationist forces in the world against a liberal, Western-dominated global order.