❗️ In his address to the nation, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin said that Moscow has carried out combined strike on targets in Ukraine – including with the use of a novel intermediate-range hypersonic missile “Oreshnik” – in response to the use of long-range Western weapons against Russia:
Putin – on the impossibility of defending against strikes by the Russian Oreshnik missile system: There are no means of countering such weapons today. The missiles attack targets at a speed of Mach 10, which is 2.5-3 kilometers per second. The current air defense systems available in the world and the missile defense systems being created by the Americans in Europe do not intercept such missiles. This is ruled out.
Message was clear, and Pentagon confirmed US was warned about “Oreshnik” strike. Of course they could do nothing. And that is exactly what they will do if their provocations of Russia grow unbearable… This time it was just one missile with a several warheads. This time warheads were a conventional ones, not nuclear ones.