The Kremlin he said he was sure that the message sent by Russia with the launch onUkraine of the missile Oreshnik and the warning of Vladimir Putin on a “global conflict” had been understood by the USA. But if this had not been the case, the Russian president made it even clearer, announcing the start of mass production of the new carrier, while the head of the strategic missile forces he warned that the missile could “hit targets across Europe.”
The Oreshnik hypersonic missile and its capabilities
«This missile system with blocks hypersonic it can hit any target, from isolated ones to an entire area, even highly protected and with high efficiency”, said the general Sergei Karakayevmeeting the head of the Kremlin along with top Russian defense officials, defense industry company executives and weapons developers.
In addition to announcing the start of series production of theOreshnika missile ballistic hypersonic medium range, Putin he made it known that it will continue to be tested “in combat conditions”, i.e. for bombings on theUkrainelike the one in which a missile component factory was hit yesterday Dnipro. According to the Russians, the carrier has a speed ten times the speed of sound and can evade any air defense system.
Concern in Kiev and the Ukrainian response
TO Kiev the concern is palpable. Today the Ukrainian parliament canceled a scheduled session for fear of new attacks, as some deputies told the AFP agency. The president Volodymyr Zelensky he said that the Ministry of Defence is already consulting with Western partners to ask for the supply of «new air defense systemsexactly the kind of systems that can protect against new risks.” And the new threat will be discussed next Tuesday in a meeting of NATO-Ukraine Councilat ambassadorial level, convened at the request of Kiev.
The strategic war between Russia and the United States
But Putin has broadened the discussion beyondUkraineto say that this and other medium and short range missiles on which Russian military scientists are working will serve to maintain a strategic balance with them USAwhich Moscow sees as threatened. Especially after, last July, Washington announced that it will deploy missiles in Germany starting in 2026 as the first step after the 2019 release of the USA – during the first presidency Trump – from the treaty Lower which in 1987 had banned the euromissiles. For this reason the Russian president underlined that theOreshnik it is a «guarantee of the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Russia».
The role of China and the evolution of the conflict
There China called on all parties involved in the conflict Ukrainian to exercise “calm and moderation”, adding that it is urgent to “work on de-escalation» and create «the conditions of a cease-fire to be implemented as soon as possible.” But Fly states that the launch of theOreshnik was a response to permission given by Washington toUkraine to use long-range missiles to strike deep into Russian territory.
The threat of global conflict and North Korea’s involvement
In this regard, the Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrovvisiting Belarusused colorful language to accuse the outgoing administration of Joe Biden of wanting to “shit” on the situation in Ukraine to “leave as negative a legacy as possible” for the president-elect Donald Trump.
«The last few hours demonstrate that the threat of a global conflict it is serious and real”, noted the Polish prime minister Donald Tusk. While the German Chancellor Olaf Scholzwho had a telephone conversation with the Russian president on November 15, said that the use of the ballistic missile by Fly it is «a frightening escalation, exactly like when Putin he hired i North Koreans». They would be 11,000according to the latest estimates from South Korean intelligence, the soldiers who Pyongyang he deployed alongside the troops of Fly in the Russian region of Kursk to fight the invading Ukrainian forces.
In exchange, the Russia would provide financial support and anti-aircraft missiles at the North Korea. «It has been ascertained that equipment and anti-aircraft missiles to strengthen the vulnerable air defense system of Pyongyang were delivered to North Korea“, he said Shin Won Sikthe chief security advisor of Seoulto the TV station Sbs. An analysis of satellite images carried out by the British research team Open Source Centreand relaunched by BBCalso showed that more than one million barrels of oil were transferred from Russian fields to North Korea starting March this year.