President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, admitted in an interview published this Sunday that senior Russian military officials discussed it is necessary to test the new hypersonic ballistic missile “Oreshnik” in combat conditions and start production.

“The Ministry of Defense had different points of view on this matter.. In the end I joined those who believed that this should happen, I gave direct instructions to do this and allocated the necessary resources. “I also agreed with those who believed that the time had come to test it in combat conditions,” said the head of the Kremlin.

Putin confirmed on November 21 the first use of Oreshnik in an attack on a Ukrainian military-industrial complex, which was carried out in response to the use of Western long-range missiles – ATACMS and Storm Shadow – against targets in Russia.

The Russian leader then said that in this way it was tested in combat conditions. “one of the newest Russian medium-range missile systems.”

So far Russia He never used Oreshnik again in Ukraine.

The head of the Kremlin assured that the army will warn the civilian population of Ukraine if the Oreshniki missiles are used again “for humanitarian reasons” and because “Today there are no means to counter these weapons.”

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He stated that The new missiles hit targets at speeds of 2.5 or 3 kilometers per second. and modern air defense systems in the world cannot intercept them.

(EFE)