Russian President Vladimir Putin This Friday he congratulated the creators of the new Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missilewhich can cause the same effect as strategic weapons without being a means of mass destruction. “The Oreshnik system is not a strategic weapon, in any case, it is not an intercontinental ballistic missile, it is not a weapon of mass destruction, in particular because it is very precise,” said the head of the Kremlin during a meeting with the military leadership in which he emphasized that if used in a massive attack together with other long-range systems, the effect would be comparable to that caused by weapons strategic.
The head of the Kremlin stressed that it was not a question of modernizing the Soviet system, but rather of result of the work of the military industry of post-Soviet Russia. “Although it is also true that we are all from the Soviet Union, we were all educated with what previous generations did and, to some extent, we benefited from their results,” he said. -he admitted.
Putin thanked the creators of the new missile and assured that they would receive state awards. He reiterated that “no one in the world” has a system like Oreshnik, capable of bypassing any anti-missile shield. “Yes, sooner or later, other powers will have it too (…). But it will be tomorrow, or in one or two years, and “We have it now, and that’s the important thing.”he assured.
In his message to the nation, Putin on Thursday confirmed the attack on an arms factory in the Dnipro region with a hypersonic ballistic missile Oreshnik. Putin also assured that Russia reserves the right to use its weapons against the military installations of Western countries.
