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Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Moscow began the production of its latest ultrasonic missiles and confirmed its plans to develop them in Belarus at the end of this year, a threat to neighboring Ukraine.
Sitting next to the President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko on the island of Valaam, near St. Petersburg, Putin said that the army had already chosen places of development in Belarus for a hazel ballistic missile.
“The preparatory work continues, and we probably finish with them until the end of the year,” Putin said, adding that the first series of Oreeshnik and their systems were produced and put in military service.
For the first time, Russia used hazel, which in Russian means “hazelnuts”, against Ukraine in November, when it launched experimental weapons in a factory in Dnipro, which built missiles when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.
This blow caused explosions, which, as reported, lasted up to three hours, but there were no losses.
The Russian states of the media praised Oreshnik after attacking the Dnipro and in the West, it would take only 11 minutes to get to the air base in Poland and 17 minutes to get to the headquarters of NATO in Brussels.
Putin also highly appreciated the capabilities of the hazel, saying that his multiple military heads, which plunged at the target at speeds to Mach 10, are not affected by interception and are so strong that the use of many of them on a normal blow can be the same catastrophic.
Nevertheless, experts noted that the real capabilities of the rocket have not yet been proven and that they can be excessive for propaganda purposes.
In June, the reports claimed that the hazel had a bad launch, with unconfirmed shots that were supposed to see how he collapses around Kazakhstan, causing research by the Astana authorities.
The threat to the West
The Russian president warned the West that Moscow could use it against the allies of Ukraine in NATO if they allow Kyiv to use large missiles to damage the inside of Russia.
The Russian leader of Russia said that hazel, who can carry ordinary or nuclear leaders, has a range that allows him to achieve all of Europe.
Middle missiles can fly from 500 to 5500 kilometers. Such weapons were prohibited in accordance with the agreement of the Soviet era, which Washington and Moscow refused in 2019.
Last fall, Putin and Lukashenko signed an agreement, as Moscow said, “security guarantees” in Belarus, including the possible use of Russian nuclear weapons.
The pact is after a revision of the Kremlin nuclear doctrine, which first put Belarus under his nuclear umbrella against the background of tension with the West for the constant general war of Russia in Ukraine.
Lukashenko, who runs Belarus for more than 30 years and was based on the subsidies and support of the Kremlin, allowed Russia to use the territory of its country to send troops to Ukraine at the beginning of a complete invasion at the beginning of 2022
Russia did not reveal how many such weapons were developed, but in December Lukashenko said that there are several dozen in his country today.
The development of ordinary nuclear weapons in Belarus, which has a border of 1084 kilometers with Ukraine, would allow Russian aircraft and missiles to easily and quickly achieve potential goals if Moscow decides to use them.
It also expands Russia’s ability to aim on several NATO allies in Eastern and Central Europe.
The updated nuclear doctrine, signed by Putin, officially reduced the threshold for the use of Russia’s nuclear weapons.
The document says that Moscow can use nuclear weapons “in response to the use of nuclear and other types of weapons of mass destruction” against Russia or its allies, as well as “in case of attack” against Russia and Belarus with ordinary weapons, which threatens “sovereignty and/or”.