Oreshnik missiles in Belarus: what has been revealed
Russia’s brand-new hypersonic ballistic system could be deployed in the neighboring country next year, President Putin has said | Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko have discussed the potential sharing of Moscow’s brand-new hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile system, at talks in Minsk on Friday. Oreshnik is an intermediate-range system, with its missiles capable of carrying kinetic warheads that strike at hypersonic speeds, that is up to mach ten. ● After Ukraine launched several attacks deep into Russia using Western-supplied long-range weapons, Moscow retaliated with a strike on a defense facility in Dnepropetrovsk using the Oreshnik medium-range hypersonic missile
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