He President of Russia Vladimir Putin has assured that the West has “no chance” of intercepting the new ‘Oreshnik’ ballistic missile, used against Ukraine in November. “Let’s do an experiment, a duel,” let’s choose a target in kyiv, bring Western air defenses there and see if they are able to intercept it,” the Russian president said at his annual press conference. Let them concentrate all their anti-aircraft and anti-missile systems there. And we will attack with (a missile) ‘Oreshnik’. And we’ll see what happens. We are prepared for that experiment,” he added.
The weapon, when used in Ukraine In November, it travels at a speed equivalent to 10 times the speed of sound and the Russian president assures that “there are currently no ways to counter this weapon.”
Regarding the war in Ukraine, the president assured this Thursday that he does not know how much longer the Russian military campaign in Ukraine will last, although he stressed that Moscow is ever closer to get your goals on the battlefield.
Changes on the front
During his annual press conference, Putin He stated that the situation on the front is changing “radically” and Russian troops conquer “square kilometers daily”, but he did not dare to predict the duration of the war in the neighboring country.
Putin considers that the Russian economy has remained stable, although there has been a certain overheating that was sowing a high inflation. In his speech at the annual press conference, the Russian president predicted that the economy could grow by 4% although inflation remains a worrying figure.
