The Russian leader’s use of the missile against Ukraine sends a powerful signal about his intention to weaken NATO and bend Europe’s security architecture to Russia’s will.

STORY: On Nov. 21 Russia struck Ukraine's Dnipro with a new kind of missile.Known as Oreshnik, or hazel tree in Russia, it caused limited damage, according to senior officials. But the first combat use of such a design – which Russian President Vladimir Putin called unstoppable – has drawn scrutiny from Western military experts.

The missile Russia used to hit Dnipro is a variant of the RS-26 ballistic missile. Putin has several more of these missiles, the UK Ministry of Defense informs. According to the report, on November 21,

Russian President Vladimir Putin defended Russia's use of Oreshnik intermediate range missile and claiming that NATO has no way to intercept it.

Vladimir Putin is once again threatening Ukraine and Western countries. This time he spoke about the Oreshnik ballistic missiles, whose strike "turns everything into dust." A recording from Putin's conference has caught the attention of the Ukrainian public once again.

This statement was made on Nov. 28, according to Russian state news agency TASS. Putin claims that the Oreshnik missile has “no analogs” in the world and that “similar ones will not appear soon.” He once again boasted about some unconfirmed specifications of the Oreshnik,