Russia will continue to test its new hypersonic ballistic missile Oreshnik in combat conditions, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday. Her called Thursday’s detonation on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro a success, informs TASR based on Reuters and AFP reports.
In a televised meeting with the generals, Putin also said that the Orešnik (hazel) missile is not a modernization of the old Soviet systems, whereas it is a missile that no one else has and that cannot be shot down by current defense systems. According to him, the development of such weapons is key to Russia’s security at a time when it is exposed to new threats.
The head of the Kremlin informed that it was done the decision to start serial production of a new rocketwhich according to him is highly accurate weapon, not a weapon of mass destruction. He also claimed that Russia is also working on a whole series of other medium- and short-range missiles, whose tests are carried out before serial production.
In an extraordinary appearance on state television on Thursday evening, Putin announced that Russia hit Ukraine with a new medium-range Oresnik (Lieska) missilewhich carried a non-nuclear warhead. This one “test in combat conditions” characterized as a reaction to “aggressive actions of NATO countries towards Russia”. This week, Ukraine began attacking Russian territory with longer-range American missiles. Last Sunday, the American newspaper The New York Times reported on the authorization of the United States for such attacks.
