It is accelerating. Russia has used an ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile), to strike the city of Dnipro, although Putin denied that the missile was actually an ICBM, but rather a new type of missile. This set off the NATO nuclear early warning systems, but no warning of a possible nuclear attack was given to the populations, indicating that if a nuclear exchange occurs, no civilians will be told: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKoLWSV7vcw. Use of an ICBM was not necessary for the attack on the Ukraine, but was a demonstration by Russia that it is quite capable of lobbing nuclear-armed ICBMs upon the West. This is the first time an ICBM has been used in warfare and it looks like it will not the last.
Further, Russia's ambassador to the UK has stated that the Ukraine's use of Storm Shadow missiles on Russian territory means Britain "is now directly involved in this war."
"This firing cannot happen without NATO staff, British staff as well," Andrei Kelin told Sky News:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14110355/Putin-guilty-clear-escalation-ICBM-attack-Ukraine-confirmed-EU-warns-huge-missile-strike-Moscow-threatens-Poland-attack-amid-growing-WW3-fears.html?ito=push-notification&ci=RPQJQ2kivt&cri=lngMIPFGZz&si=vgWBxenIksoi&xi=f04229df-8f58-4d02-83d0-256537854323&ai=14110355.
World War III is here, and it is just a matter of how things might intensify now, since the globalist elite are dedicated to getting the war up before Trump takes office: "Kyiv's former military commander in chief said the direct involvement of Russian allies in Ukraine means that World War III has officially begun.
"I believe that in 2024 we can absolutely believe that the Third World War has begun," former military chief Valery Zaluzhny warned Thursday, according to Politico."
"Vladimir Putin has suggested a newly tested hypersonic ballistic missile could be used to hit the UK in an unannounced televised address.
The Russian president said the missile, designed for long-distance nuclear strikes, which struck the Ukrainian city of Dnipro today, could be used to attack countries who allowed Kyiv to use their weapons to hit Russia – after the UK reportedly gave such permission for use of its Storm Shadow missiles.
"We consider ourselves entitled to use our weapons against military facilities of those countries that allow their weapons to be used against our facilities," Mr Putin said this evening.
His statement followed 18 Russian soldiers being killed by a Storm Shadow strike on a command post yesterday, according to Russian military bloggers."