Hours after the strike, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a TV address, said that Russia had launched a "new conventional intermediate-range" missile with the codename Oreshnik, meaning hazel tree in Russian.

President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia will continue to test and start mass-producing the hypersonic ballistic missile that it fired at Ukraine Thursday.

A Kremlin mouthpiece has warned that Vladimir Putin has far worse weapons than his new Oreshnik missiles. Ukraine is lready on high alert for brutal new Russian onslaughts following the deployment of the Oreshnik hypersonic missile in Dnipro earlier this week.