Russia says it will inform before using new ‘Oreshnik’ medium-range missile with ‘no countermeasures’ – ThePrint – ANIFeed

“We will do this out of humanitarian concerns, openly, publicly, without worrying about taking any countermeasures that the enemy will receive this information,” Putin said, according to the TASS news agency.

“Why without any worries? “Because there is currently no countermeasure against this weapon,” he said.

The new Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile, which was used for the first time and hit a defense production site in Dnepr (formerly Dnepropetrovsk), was equipped with a conventional warhead but was also designed to carry a nuclear payload. TASS report.

Putin said Russia has the right to use weapons against military facilities of countries that allow their weapons to be used against targets in Russia. The Russian leader was quoted as saying that when using Oreshnik in the future, Russia will give advance warnings and allow civilians to leave areas designated as dangerous.

In his televised speech, Putin said that the attack was in retaliation for attacks by US-made ATACMS and British-made Storm Shadow missiles against Russia.

Russia said it hit Ukraine’s aerospace facility Yuzhmash, this time with a nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missile carrying only a conventional warhead. According to Russian state media reporting based on Putin, the missile was given the code name Oreshnik, which can roughly be translated as ‘hazelnut tree’, by its designers.

Oreshnik attacks targets at a speed of Mach 10, that is, 2.5-3 kilometers per second, and according to Russian state media, modern air defense systems and missile defense systems deployed by the Americans in Europe are unable to intercept such missiles.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Defense calls the new type of missile Russia is launching against Ukraine an “intermediate-range ballistic missile,” or IRBM; because this type of weapon is used on the battlefield for the first time. Ukraine, said the Pentagon’s deputy press secretary.

“I can confirm that Russia has launched an experimental medium-range ballistic missile,” Sabrina Singh said during a briefing at the Pentagon on November 21.

“This IRBM was based on Russia’s RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile model. “In terms of notifications to the United States, advance notice was given to the United States for a short period of time through nuclear risk mitigation channels prior to launch,” he said.

Singh also said that IRBM and intercontinental ballistic missile have similar flight paths, high trajectories and can carry large payloads. “But the real difference lies in range and strategic intent,” he said.

The weapon, known as a Multiple Independent Targetable Reentry Vehicle (MIRV), carries an array of warheads, each capable of targeting a specific location, allowing a ballistic missile to launch a larger attack, CNN explained. MIRVs were developed during the Cold War to allow the delivery of multiple nuclear warheads with a single launch. The States’ ICBM, Minuteman III, is armed with MIRVs.

Additionally, the Pentagon called Putin’s remarks “dangerous, reckless rhetoric.”

In a post on channel X, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called the firing of the new medium-range ballistic missile by Russia a “cynical violation” of the United Nations Charter and said it was a “clear and serious escalation in the scale and brutality of this attack.” war.”

Zelensky stated that Putin was “testing” Kiev’s partners with his actions and called on world leaders to put pressure on Moscow. Zelensky accused Russia of taking a “second step towards escalating tensions” and said the first escalatory step was to involve North Korean troops in the war.

Until 2019, the United States and Russia were parties to the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which banned the testing and deployment of missiles that travel between 310 and 3,400 miles.

The United States withdrew from the INF treaty in 2019, and Russia soon followed.

TASS reported that Putin, in his televised speech yesterday, said that the United States made a mistake by unilaterally destroying the INF Treaty in 2019 with a “difficult excuse”.

Meanwhile, earlier this week the US Department of Defense confirmed that the US would provide antipersonnel mines to Ukraine.

“What we’ve seen lately is that the Russians have been so unsuccessful in the way they fight that they’ve changed their tactics a little bit and they’re no longer leading with their mechanized forces,” the US Secretary of Defense said. Llyod Austin said on the sidelines of the 14th ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting Plus in Laos. “They’re leading with unmounted forces that can close in and do things that will pave the way for mechanized forces,” he said.

He also said that in the face of changing tactics, the Ukrainians were producing their own mines to slow down Russia’s advance.

The United States also announced an additional US$275 million security assistance package for Ukraine, the 70th tranche of assistance since August 2021. This Presidential Withdrawal Authorization package provides critical capabilities, including ammunition for HIMARS, artillery, anti-tank weapons, unmanned aerial vehicles. and protective equipment.

The United States has no plans to update its nuclear posture following the combat test of Russia’s new Oreshnik hypersonic medium-range missile, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters at his briefing yesterday.

“We haven’t seen any adjustments in their nuclear posture that we observed, and in turn we haven’t adjusted our nuclear posture,” he said.

Earlier this week, Putin approved changes to Russia’s nuclear weapons policy on Tuesday. It states that any attack by a non-nuclear state against Russia with the participation or support of a nuclear state will be considered a joint attack. Russia has said it could use nuclear weapons in the event of a conventional attack against itself or Belarus that “poses a critical threat to sovereignty or territorial integrity.”

He also said that nuclear deterrence targets not only other nuclear states, but also other countries that allow their territory, water or airspace to be used to prepare or conduct attacks against them.

Putin signed a decree approving the country’s updated nuclear doctrine, the Fundamentals of State Policy in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that Russia’s updated nuclear doctrine provides the possibility of a nuclear response to the West’s use of non-nuclear warheads against Russia. He had previously said that the US decision to allow Ukraine to use American missiles to strike deep into Russia amounted to “a qualitatively new round of escalation”. (MOMENT)

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