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Russia ‘fires intercontinental ballistic missile’ at Ukraine for first time (www.telegraph.co.uk)
submitted 7 hours ago by Streetlights@lemmy.world to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
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Supposedly, an RS-26 was launched from Astrakhan and targeted at infrastructure in Dnipro.

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[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 hours ago

This missile is only "Intercontinental" if you launch it from the edge of a continent. It's got about 6000km of range, which is a lot, but these are obviously meant for use in Europe. They were probably thinking of London and Paris when designing them though.