Ukraine's energy infrastructure was under 'massive' attack by Russia this morning, according to the Ukrainian energy minister, with explosions reported in multiple cities.
Vladimir Putin said last week that Russia would start mass-producing a new hypersonic, non-nuclear ballistic missile that it fired at Dnipro.In a televised address, the Russian president said the intermediate-range missile, which he called Oreshnik, the Russian word for hazel tree, had been used in response to US and UK weapons being used by Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia.
However, Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in California, cast doubt on those claims.He noted that all ballistic missiles of that range were hypersonic, and that missile interceptors such as Israel's Arrow 3 and the US SM-3 Block 2A were designed to destroy them.
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