Putin says Russia’s hypersonic missile has entered service and will be deployed in Belarus
Moscow (AP) – President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia has started production Newest Hypersonic missiles And he confirmed his plans to distribute them to Ally Belarus this year.
Putin, who was sitting with Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus on Valeam Island near St. Petersburg, said that the army has already chosen distribution sites in Belarus. ORESHNIK intermediate vehicle honeyfall missile.
“Preparatory work continues and we will be done with it before the end of the year, Put Putin added that the first Oreshniks and systems were put into military service and entered.
Russia first used the Russian Oreshnik against Ukraine, where Ukraine fired the experimental weapon in a factory in Dnipro in Ukraine, in a factory in Ukraine, in a factory where Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.
Putin praised Oreshnik’s talents, saying that the multiple war titles falling to a target up to Mach 10 were immune to the seizure and that many of them could be as destructive as a nuclear attack.
He warned the West that Ukraine can use Moscow against NATO allies, allowing Kiev to use longer -range missiles to hit Russia.
Russia’s Chief of Missile Forces has announced that Oreshnik, who can carry traditional or nuclear war titles, has a range that allows him to reach the whole of Europe.
Intermediate -range missiles can fly between 500 and 5,500 kilometers (310 to 3,400 miles). Such weapons were banned within the scope of the Soviet Period Agreement, which Washington and Moscow abandoned in 2019.
In the fall last autumn, Putin and Lukashenko signed an agreement that gave Moscow’s security guarantees, including possible use of Russian nuclear weapons to spray any aggression. The pact follows the revision of the Kremlin. nuclear doctrineFor the first time, Belarus placed Belarus under the Russian nuclear umbrella between the tensions on the West and the conflict in Ukraine.
LukashenkoRully managed Belarus with an iron hand for more than 30 years and relied on Kremlin subsidies and support, allowing Russia to use the territory of its country to send unity to Ukraine in 2022 and to host some of it. Tactical nuclear weapons. Russia did not explain how many such weapons have been deployed, but Lukashenko said in December that his country is currently several dozens.
The deployment of tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus, which has a limit of Ukraine and 1,084 kilometers (673 miles), will allow Russian aircraft and missiles to achieve potential goals there if Moscow decides to use them. It is also expanding Russia’s ability to target several NATO allies in Eastern and Central Europe.
. Renewed nuclear doctrine This, which he signed in the fall last autumn, officially dropped the threshold to use Russia to use his nuclear weapons. The Document says Moscow’s nuclear weapons can use traditional weapons in the case of “aggression and“ aggression ”against Russia and Belarus, in response to the use of nuclear and other weapons against Russia or its allies.
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