Dnipro bears the brunt of Moscow's first retaliatory strike after Ukraine fires U.S.-made missiles into Russia, and Ukraine claims Moscow may have used an ICBM.

Russia has fired a new intermediate-range ballastic missile at Ukraine in what Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky called a “severe escalation” of Moscow’s invasion. Initally, Ukraine suggested an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) had been launched against the city of Dnipro,

The claim was disputed by a Western official, who said it was a ballistic missile but not an ICBM that was fired at the eastern city of Dnipro early Thursday.