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The reported range of 700km (to Dnipro) falls short of the typical intercontinental range
Dr Mattias Eken, a defence and security analyst at RAND Europe, added This strike has no obvious military value - they could achieve the same objectives without sacrificing (an ICBM or advanced missile).
Dr Ruth Deyermond, Senior Lecturer in Post-Soviet Security at King's College London, told MailOnline If (the suspected ICBM strike) is true, clearly this would be another example of grave, reckless and escalatory behaviour from Russia and only serves to strengthen our resolve.
Sir Keir Starmer's office said yesterday They are superior to conventional missiles in all respects - in terms of height and speed,
Russia must be forced into real peace, which can only be achieved through strength,
From the Russian side, this is just a cognitive warfare move,
It could be refitted to certainly carry different types of conventional or nuclear warheads,
Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh said The flight time of this Russian missile from the moment of its launch in the Astrakhan region to its impact in the city of Dnipro was 15 minutes,
Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Intelligence (HUR) said in a statement on Friday The main message is that the reckless decisions and actions of Western countries, which produce missiles, supply them to Ukraine, and subsequently take part in carrying out strikes on Russian territory, cannot remain without a reaction from the Russian side,
As of today, there are no means of counteracting such a weapon,
Modern air defence systems… cannot intercept such missiles. That’s impossible,
If this is research and combat use, then there will be at least ten missiles."
The system itself is known as Kedr. This is an experimental system. Let's just call it a medium-range ballistic missile. A nuclear weapons carrier. The fact that they deployed a non-nuclear version is, as they say, a warning from them that they have not gone completely insane,
Most likely, the designation Oreshnik was invented by Putin to create the impression of new missile capabilities and intimidate the West, because there is no information about Oreshnik in the public domain,
said Roman Svitan, a reserve colonel in the Ukrainian armed forces People I know who live in Dnipro told me they had never seen anything like that in this war,
former Ukrainian Security Service analyst and military expert Ivan Stupak told Novaya Gazeta Europe Russia has demonstrated its ability to respond to Western actions by using ballistic missiles."
The Kremlin later said on their new missile Deploying this capability will neither change the course of the conflict nor deter Nato allies from supporting Ukraine,
Several massive explosions occurred in Sumy,
Artem Kobzar said on Telegram All of this [is] going in the wrong direction,
Stéphane Dujarric said as he called on all parties to de-escalate the conflict and “to protect civilians, not hit civilian targets or critical civilian infrastructure”. We are open to negotiations. We are ready to consider any realistic, nonpoliticized initiative — of course,
