Investors dash to safe-haven currencies after Putin updates nuclear doctrine and Ukraine fires missiles into Russia
Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates
Global stock markets fell and bond prices have jumped after reports that Ukraine has fired a US-made long-range missile into Russia for the first time and Vladimir Putin approved changes to Moscow’s nuclear doctrine.
Investors dashed into safe-haven currencies such as the US dollar, the Japanese yen and the Swiss franc on Tuesday, after the RBC-Ukraine news outlet reported that Kyiv had carried out its first strike on Russian territory using western-supplied missiles.
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