Vladimir Putin threatens to hit kyiv with the new experimental missile tested by the Russian army

The Russian president once again praised the power of this intermediate-range weapon, which he says is capable of striking anywhere in Europe.

How far will the conflict in Ukraine escalate? Russian President Vladimir Putin affirmed, Thursday, November 28, that he did not rule out ordering a strike against the Ukrainian capital kyiv with its experimental hypersonic intermediate-range missile Orechnik, tested for the first time against a target in Ukraine on November 21.

“We do not exclude the use of Orechnik against military targets, military-industrial installations or decision-making centers, including in kyiv,” he said during a press conference broadcast on Russian television, on the sidelines of a visit to Kazakhstan. At the request of a journalist, he also once again praised the firepower of this intermediate-range weapon capable of striking anywhere in Europe.

“If you use several of these systems in one strike – two, three, four – then, in terms of its power, it is comparable to the use of a nuclear weapon.”he said. Vladimir Putin did not specify whether this missile was exclusively conventional or whether it could be equipped with a nuclear warhead, which he suggested last week after a test strike in Ukraine, presented as a response to firing of American ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles on Russian soil.