The President of Russia, Vladimir Putinthreatened Europe with a new arms race and announced the mass production of a new generation of hypersonic missiles capable of reaching major European capitals in just a few minutes.
“As you know, no one in the world has such weapons at the moment. Yes, sooner or later other powers will also have them (…), but that will be tomorrow or in a year or two. And we already have this system now and this is what is important,” he said this Friday during a meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Defense and the Russian military and space industry.
According to what was learned, the High Command assured the Russian President that both the military industry and the Roscosmos space agency have sufficient reserves to start production and supply these weapons to the army in “in a very short period of time“.
This information comes in the same week that Russia attacked with an Oreshnik hypersonic missile -discharged- the city of Dnipro, the fourth most populous in the country and located in the central part of Ukraine. An action they took in response to the decision of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to use American and British long-range weapons against Russian territory; and as a sign of power that Russian power possesses and that its president described as a “guarantee of territorial integrity and Russian sovereignty“.
As Putin warned, this new ballistic missile, which It’s already putting the world on holdis so fast that it is unstoppable and, moreover, capable of carrying nuclear warheads. can reach 2.5 kilometers per secondmaking it undetectable by enemy anti-missile batteries, a danger that puts the world on hold as it can change the course of the war.
“We are talking about a new weapon which, moreover, seeks to put on the table something fundamental for Russia, namely that the anti-missile shield does not work against that“, commented the journalist and director of ‘La Salle Politique’, Yago Rodríguez, to Al Rojo Vivo.
In addition, and as weapons experts point out, this new hypersonic missile has the capacity to carry both nuclear warheads and conventional weapons. Added to this is the fact that, thanks to its speed, in just 19 minutes it could reach the UK and in just eight to Poland, as was speculated on Russian television, where they also referred to other cities like Paris and Berlin, although Germany has not authorized the use of its systems Tauruses against Russian territory, for defense purposes only. .
In the same spirit, he defended that he would continue testing this new missile, also in “combat conditions“, who denied that it was an improved version of the old Soviet Hazel, and that will eventually become fully integrated into the war action against Ukraine once its manufacturing is completed.
Vladimir Putin He also showed his pride by verifying the effectiveness of the “Oreshnik” as a weapon of destruction, although he confirmed that it was not a weapon of mass destruction.
Zelensky asks for help from the West
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyannounced that he was working from the Ministry of Defense with his international allies to seek protection against new Russian attack weapons. “The world must respond seriously to Putin, so that he fears expanding the war and feels the real consequences of his actions,” he said in his daily speech.
