Russia's new intermediate-range ballistic missile has NATO members on edge after the missiles were used in a strike on Ukraine early Thursday morning.

The United States believes that Russia fired a never-before-fielded intermediate-range ballistic missile on Thursday in its attack on Ukraine, an escalation that analysts say could have implications for European missile defense.

The Russians have revised their nuclear weapons usage doctrine. This is in response to the permission given to Ukraine to launch missiles from the USA on the aggressor's territory. The list of potential targets includes,

The spokesperson for Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paweł Wroński states that the NATO missile defense base in Redzikowo, Poland, is purely defensive despite provocative statements from the Russian Federation,

Russia has said it has identified a US missile base in Poland which it claims raises the prospect of a nuclear war between Moscow and Nato.

Russia has threatened to attack a new US defense base in Poland with “advanced weapons” — just hours after reportedly launching an intercontinental ballistic missile at Ukraine on Thursday. Moscow leveled the warning after saying the opening of the ballistic missile defense base,

Recently, a new US missile defense base, Aegis Ashore, was opened on the territory of Poland. The Russian Federation began threatening Warsaw with a "potential strike", Maria Zakharova, Spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry,

Russia claims that the American base in Redzikowo leads to "an increase in the level of nuclear threat" and is a "provocative move by Washington," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a press conference.