Putin threatens to attack “decision-making centers” in Kiev with weapons similar to nuclear bombs

Putin boasted that Russia produces ten times more missiles than all NATO countries combined. You are ready to use them.

At the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, Putin spoke about the capabilities of the Oreshnik missile, reports .

In the case of a massive use of the Oreshnik, Putin guarantees that the strength of the attack will be comparable to that of a nuclear weapon.

After guaranteeing that Russia produces ten times more missiles than all of NATO, Putin also said that Western equivalents of these weapons will not appear anytime soon: “there are no analogues of the Russian Oreshnik in the world”.

US and UK sources also indicated to , last week, that they believed the Oreshnik missile fired at Dnipro was an experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile. (IRBM) with nuclear capabilitywhich has a range of less than 5,500 km.

Still, this distance is enough to reach Europe from the location where it was fired in southwestern Russia, but not the USA. The Kremlin argued that it was forced to use the new missile “in response to enemy actions.”

Putin also stated that they could other new missile systems emerge and that Russia will continue to carry out combat tests with the Oreshnik.

“Currently, the Ministry of Defense and the General Staff are selecting targets to hit on Ukrainian territory. They could be military installations, industrial and defense companies, or decision-making centers in Kiev“, threatened Putin at the CSTO.

also assured that Russia had hit 17 targets that were “military installations, defense industry installations and their support systems”information partially confirmed by the Ukrainian air force, which told Reuters that Russia carried out 12 attacks on Ukrainian targets in a night air strike that mainly targeted fuel and energy infrastructures.