Russia has recently used a missile whose secret development once triggered the U.S. withdrawal from a landmark nuclear arms control treaty, sources from Ukraine’s foreign ministry told Reuters. The revelation links a weapon central to Cold War-era security agreements directly to the war in Ukraine.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov referred journalists to the Russian defence ministry on Friday when asked about a Reuters report that Russia had fired 9M729 missiles at Ukraine.

Nearly 60,000 people were deprived of power supply after Russia's overnight air attack on Ukraine's frontline region of Zaporizhzhia, while two people were killed in the southern region of Odesa, Ukra...