A Russian TV host asserted that Vladimir Putin's new hypersonic missile, the Oreshnik, will render the US and Europe defenseless against Russia's military might.
A Russian TV host said 'nothing will protect' the US and Europe from the Oreshnik , Vladimir Putin 's new hypersonic ballistic missile, according to a post on X.
Anton Gerashchenko, the former deputy minister of internal affairs of Ukraine, posted a video of the Russian TV show Evening with Vladimir Solovyov on Russia-1, in which the host, Solovyov, and others spoke about Russia's relationship with NATO in the early to mid 2000s, particularly regarding tests comparing Moscow's missiles with others, as well as Putin's latest weapons. Newsweek reached out to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation for comment via email. During the broadcast, retired Lieutenant-General Evgeny Buzhinsky, a pundit on Solovyov's show, spoke of conducting previous experiments to ascertain how Russian missiles compare with those from NATO members. Regarding conducting similar experiments now, Solovyov said: 'There will be no experiments because their missile systems lose not only to our Oreshnik, but to all our missile systems. Now the Europeans and Americans can sleep easy, nothing will protect them.' The Russian president introduced the Oreshnik, a hypersonic ballistic missile that has a range of up to 3,100 miles and has been described as a 'modified RS-26 'Rubezh' intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM)' with a component of the Bulava missile, in an attack on Dnipro in late November. The missile can travel at high speeds, at 10 times the speed of sound, or Mach 10. The weapon, its name meaning 'the hazel,' functions as Cold War-era multiple independently-targetable re-entry vehicle (MIRV) that can carry six warheads, which each deployed six sub-munitions when utilized in the attack in central Ukrain
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