Putin: Hyper Schallrakete in Russia is used in Belarus

Putin: Hyper Schallrakete in Russia is used in Belarus

President Vladimir Putin announced on Friday that Russia started producing his latest hyperschallrakets and confirmed the plans this year in allies in allies station.

stationing the Oreshnik rockets in Belarus

In the presence of the Belarusian President Alexander Lukaschenko

preparation and use of the Oreshnik

"The preparatory work is going and we will probably be ready by the end of the year," said Putin. He added that the first series of the Oreshnik rockets and their systems were produced and entered military service.

Russia, Russian, for the first time in November, used Russian for “Haselnussbaum” against Ukraine when the experimental weapon fired on a factory in Dnipro, which used to produce rockets when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. Putin praised the skills of the Oreshnik rocket and emphasized that her multiple blazing heads that can achieve speeds of up to Mach 10 cannot be intercepted. In addition, they are so powerful that the use of several rockets in a conventional attack could be as devastating as a nuclear attack.

threat to NATO

He warned the West that Moscow against Ukrainens NATO-allied that Kiev made it possible, to use their long -distance missiles against goals within Russia.

range and possible uses

The head of the Russian rocket forces stated that Oreshnik, which can carry both conventional and nuclear explosive heads, has a reach that enables it to reach all of Europe. Average ranges can reach ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers (310 to 3,400 miles). Such weapons were banned under a contract agreed in the Cold War that Washington and Moscow gave up in 2019.

security guarantees for Belarus

Last autumn Putin and Lukaschenko signed a contract that provides for security guarantees for Belarus, including the possible use of Russian nuclear weapons to ward off aggression. This agreement followed the revision of Putin's Nucleardoktrin, which Belarus put under the Russian nuclear screen for the first time, in the context of the tensions with the West because of the conflict in Ukraine.

Lukaschko's authority and military cooperation

Lukaschenko, who has ruled Belarus with an iron hand for over 30 years and depends on Russian subsidies, allowed Russia to send troops from his territory to Ukraine and to station some of his tactical nuclear weapons. Russia has not announced how many such weapons were stationed, but Lukaschko said in December that his country currently had several dozen.

expanded military possibilities

The stationing of tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus, which is a 1,084 kilometer long Border to Ukraine would enable Russian aircraft and rockets to achieve potential goals faster and easier Moscow decides to use them. It also increases Russia's ability to target several NATO allies in Eastern and Central Europe.

new nuclearoctrin and military strategies

The revised nuclearoctrin last autumn Formally the threshold for the use of Russian nuclear weapons. The document states that Moscow could use nuclear weapons in response to the use of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction against Russia or its allies, as well as in the case of aggression against Russia and Belarus with conventional weapons that "threaten their sovereignty and/or territorial integrity".

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