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

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.

On Nov. 21, Russia launched its first intermediate-range ballistic missile, codenamed Oreshnik, at Dnipro, traveling just over 800 kilometers toward its target, according to British intelligence. The missile has a maximum range of 3,

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,