Putin says Russia is ready for a missile 'duel' with the US
We have some more comments made by Putin at the press conference. According to Reuters, he suggested a missile “duel” with the US that would show how Russia’s new Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile could defeat any American missile defence system. Putin has used the missile, which has nuclear capabilities, as a way of raising the stakes and threatening the west.
Addressing western scepticism about the Oreshnik, the Russian president suggested that both sides select a designated target to be protected by US missiles. “We’re ready for such an experiment,” Putin was quoted as saying.
Russia first fired the Oreshnik missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on 21 November, in what Putin cast as a response to Ukraine’s first use of US Atacms ballistic missiles and British Storm Shadows to strike Russian territory with Western permission. US and UK sources indicated at the time that they believed the missile fired on Dnipro was an experimental nuclear-capable, intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), which has a theoretical range of below 3,420 miles (5,500km). That is enough to reach Europe from where it was fired in south-western Russia, but not the US.
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