President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia will continue to test and start mass-producing the hypersonic ballistic missile that it fired at Ukraine Thursday.

Vladimir Putin test-fired the “Oreshnik”, the Russian word for hazelnut tree, for the first time in combat on Thursday against the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. He later boasted that it had been designed for a “decisive” strike on Britain – and added a chilling warning.

State Duma deputy Anatoly Wasserman – one of Putin's closest allies and biggest mouthpieces – has claimed that Vladimir Putin has far worse weapons available that the West 'doesn't know about'