Experts Say The US And Other Countries Don't Have The Ability To Intercept Russia's New Hypersonic Missiles

Illustration of missile firing. (Twitter / @ intelligencefnt)

JAKARTA - Head of the GORKI Center in St. Petersburg University who is also former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl said Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and West provocative policies by firing missiles that could not be intercepted by their air defenses, said Karin Kneissl, a former Austrian foreign minister and head of the GORKI Center at St. Petersburg State University.

"While the (President Joe) Biden administration is building an explosive missile heritage for the next prospective occupants of the White House, Russia is responding to today's many recent provocations by NATO," he wrote on Telegram, launching TASS November 22.

President Vladimir Putin in a evening address broadcast on television said in response to Western decisions to allow in-depth strategic attacks on Russia, using weapons given by the US and its allies, Moscow used the Orestnik medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile for the first time.

The missile, which hit Ukraine's defense production site in Dnipro (previously Dnepropxisk), is equipped with a conventional warhead, but has the capability to carry a nuclear warhead.

"There are more Russian weapons than many believe. Russia carried out a joint attack on targets in Ukraine using a new medium-range hypersonic missile," Karin Kneissl explained.

"In the western world governed by simplified black and white instincts, such responses highlight the complexity of what is at stake in general and more precisely for their anti-missile systems," he explained.

"Both the US and other countries in the world currently do not have an air defense system capable of intercepting Russia's new hypersonic missile," he said.