Claims For The Use Of Oreshnik Missiles Simultaneously Equivalent To Nuclear Weapons, President Putin: Series Production Begins Immediately

JAKARTA - Russian President Vladimir Putin claims the simultaneous use of several Orestnik missile systems equivalent to nuclear weapons, said production of the new series of weapons would begin soon.

The Kremlin Leader said at a meeting of the Russian Defense Ministry council on Monday, praising the missile's performance, which was first used to attack Ukraine last month.

"As you know, the Orestnik medium-range missile system has become Russia's newest powerful weapon. This system was successfully used in November in response to attacks on our country's territory, a ballistic missile with non-nuclear hypersonic loading has been used," President Putin said. , reported by TASS December 16.

"Production of such a system series should soon be carried out to ensure the safety of Russia and its allies," he added.

According to President Putin, Oreshnik is a very powerful weapon, with simultaneous use to be proportional to nuclear weapons.

"The Orestnik system, which has proven to be well, is very strong - I want to repeat it, and experts already know it. The commander of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces is here, he believes and he told me about it," the president said.

"In the case of complex use, the simultaneous use of multiple systems, this weapon will be proportional to nuclear weapons," President Putin claims.

"However, (this weapon) is not nuclear, because there is no nuclear fuel, there is no nuclear component, so there is no contamination," he explained.

This, according to the president, is a very important element to decide what weapons will be used in modern situations.

Russia fired the Orestnik missile into Ukraine on November 21, hitting a military target in Dnipro, after the United States and Britain allowed Kyiv to use Western weapons to strike deep into Russian territory.

"There is no way to counter the missile at this time. Oreshnik hit the target at Mach 10, or 2.5 to 3 kilometers per second," President Putin said last month.

A day later, President Putin emphasized that Oreshnik was a Russian innovation, not modernizing the Soviet Union's legacy technology.

Last week he said that if the availability of sufficient Orestnik missiles was available, Russia would no longer consider using nuclear weapons.

"We are improving our nuclear doctrine, not tightening it. Basically, now, we need to upgrade the Oreshnik missile, not the nuclear doctrine," President Putin said during a speech at a meeting of the Civil Society Council and Human Rights.

"If we look closer, the number of cutting-edge weapons systems will actually eliminate the need for the use of nuclear weapons," added President Putin.