“No one in the world has such weapons,” Putin said, adding that testing of the missile would continue, “including in combat, depending on the situation and the character of security threats created for Russia.”
Viktor Orban, the Hungarian prime minister widely considered as having the warmest relations with the Kremlin in the European Union, cautioned against underestimating Russia’s responses. “It’s not a trick… there will be consequences,” he said.
Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, said the conflict was “entering a decisive phase” and “taking on very dramatic dimensions”, while the country’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski described the attack as “an act of desperation”.
Jan Lipavský, the Czech foreign minister, called the strike an “escalatory step and an attempt of the Russian dictator to scare the population of Ukraine and to scare the population of Europe”.