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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the addition to Moscow's nuclear arsenal will make foes "think twice." The US said it was properly notified of the test and did not consider it a threat.

Soviet-era model. russia claims it can carry multiple nuclear warheads and has a range of more than 6,800 miles, making it potentially capable of striking the u.s. russia says the missile was launched wednesday afternoon from northern russia, traveling across the country to a test site in the far east. the pentagon says the test was not a surprise. >> they provided advance notice of this launch. the defense department said today that we did not deem the test a threat to the united states or its ...

Public figures, but is doing a really bang up job as in charge of intelligence. what he said last week is the more desperate putin gets, the more likely these kinds of nuclear sabre rattling, escalatory signals are going to be. this so-called -- well, satan as it is dubbed, icbm test, something that putin described as providing food for thought, a really chilling phrase, giving the west food for thought about what russia could do is, i think, you are absolutely right, a sign he is pretty much st...

Dont. the entire joint is booby-trapped and ukraine soldiers are well fortified underground. what he did yesterday sent a signal with his icbm test. putin words were we want to provide food for thought for those in the heat of frenzy aggressive allies. >> fortify the position in mariupol. it would be a waste of munitions. we talk the father of all bombs, those arent easy or cheap to make and their version of what that is he doesnt have many of them. he wont use them to prove a point and he can d...

With vladimir putin watching, it can carry up to one dozen nuclear weapons and their indications are that it can deliver the avant-garde which is a hypersonic glide vehicle which would allow it to evade essentially the u.s. missile defense system. very significant thats been around forever over the polls and a hypersonic vehicle that can evade defense. thats a significance here. the pentagon downplaying they were warned in advance because the treaty that they have to but just days ago we reporte...

Near a steel factory under assault. that steel factory sheltering the last ukrainian troops. and civilians. this is day three. so far no major territorial gains according to a new u.s. assessment. pentagon officials, though, believe russia is moving slowly, metho methodically, on purpose trying to learn from lessons made at the beginning of the war. in kharkiv, two people were found dead. they stayed back to care for animals amid heavy russian shelling there of the city and of the zoo. those wor...

Established, which hadnt happened in many days, it did not work out as planned. >> matt rivers for us there in lviv. thank you, matt. for more on russias missile test, lets get more information now because the state media reported that putin says this launch will, quote, give thought to those who are trying to threaten russia. >> cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr with us now. barbara, whats the view from the pentagon? >> reporter: well, here at the pentagon officials are saying they kne...

United nations could be involved, but victoria nuland said if the russians allow it. youre talking about in the middle of a combat zone. usually when warring parties come together and they act under pragmatic and humanitarian rules, they will allow for these kinds of things to happen. but were seeing russia do anything but act under humanitarian rules. they are in fact using those kind of rules. its like putting a meal in front of a starving man and then saying, no, not so fast, were not going g...

This period of heightened tensions, maybe not such a good idea, not great timing for the russians to decide to do this, well aware of putins constant escalatory behavior. but the u.s. cancelled its own intercontinental ballistic missile test earlier this month because it did not wanting it to be misinterpreted by the russians. it didnt want to give the russians any excuse to say that the u.s. was escalating things with what was another routine test on the u.s. side. now were going to have to wai...

Quite frankly, if i may, it should be ignored, it should be answered with the reply that the united states is now going to be training ukrainian air force pilots on the f-15 and f-16 and a-10. the united states leadership has to change around this deterrent equation and get out of the reactive mode of being deterred by putin and have us start to deter putin himself from taking the kind of heinous actions that we is see day in and day out. >> neil: to your point, general, we dont know much about ...