Putin stated that the Orechnik is impossible to intercept by Western missile defense systems and that tests of this new intermediate ballistic missile will continue in the future.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered this Friday the mass production and continuation of combat tests of the new Orechnik hypersonic ballistic missile, used on Thursday to attack central Ukraine.
“We will continue these tests, especially in combat situations, depending on the situation and the nature of the threats to Russia’s security,” the Kremlin leader declared during a televised meeting with military officials.
Following the launch of the hypersonic ballistic missile, directed without a nuclear payload against the Dnipro region in central Ukraine, Vladimir Putin stated, in a brief address to the nation on Thursday, that The attack was a “response to the use of American and British long-range weapons.” on Russian soil, warning that “there is no way to combat” Moscow’s new weapons.
“They attack targets at a speed of Mach 10, or 2.5 to three kilometers per second. The air defense systems currently available in the world and The missile defense systems created by the Americans in Europe. “They do not intercept these missiles,” he said.
The Ukrainian intelligence services indicated this Friday that Russia should produce two experimental samples of the missile system they call Kedr starting in October, Orechnik being only a code name for the research project, according to the leader of the “secret” kyiv.
Kyrylo Budanov, quoted by the digital newspaper Euromaidan, explained that it is “an experimental system” of a medium-range ballistic missile that carries nuclear weapons.
“The fact that they used it in a non-nuclear version is, as they say, a warning [dos russos] that they have not gone completely crazy,” he commented.
In his speech lasting about eight minutes this Thursday, Vladimir Putin indicated that the Russian Army will alert the Ukrainian civilian population about the use of the new missiles “for humanitarian reasons” and also, he insisted, because “today there are no means to counteract the situation.” these weapons.”
The Kremlin leader confirmed the attacks that occurred this week with long-range American ATACMS missiles and British Storm Shadow missiles, directed against military infrastructure in the border regions of Bryansk and Kursk, in an unprecedented change in almost three years of conflict. from the positions of Washington and London in connection with the use of their weapons by Ukrainian forces on Russian territory.
Putin defended that the use of Western weapons by Ukrainian forces to attack his country turned the war in Ukraine into a “global conflict” and admitted to attacking kyiv’s allies involved.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged the international community to react, warning of an increase in the “scale and brutality” of the conflict, which began on February 24, 2022 with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“The world must react. At this moment there is no strong reaction”Zelensky lamented in a message on social media.
The Atlantic Alliance and Ukraine will meet on Tuesday in Brussels to discuss Thursday’s Russian attack, diplomatic sources revealed to the France Presse agency.
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Source: Observadora
