BRUSSELS, December 3. /TASS/. NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has confirmed that the alliance's top diplomats will discuss Russia's attack on a Ukrainian military industrial complex facility with its latest Oreshnik hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile.

"We will discuss this," he said at a press conference ahead of the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting.

According to the NATO chief, the use of this missile should "neither change the course of the conflict nor deter NATO allies from supporting Ukraine." Earlier, Vladimir Zelensky called on NATO countries to supply Kiev with the latest weapons to test them on Ukrainian territory under the conditions of a real military conflict.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on November 21 that the United States and its NATO allies had earlier announced that they would authorize Ukraine’s use of long-range weapons to hit inside Russia, after which American and British missiles struck Russian military facilities in the Kursk and Bryansk regions. He said that Russia responded to those attacks by firing Russia’s newest Oreshnik hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile with a non-nuclear warhead at a Ukrainian defense industry facility, the Yuzhmash plant in Dnepr (formerly Dnepropetrovsk). The Russian leader emphasized that the West’s provocative policies could have dire consequences if they further escalate the conflict.