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Kyiv:

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday promised more combat test-firing of an experimental hypersonic missile fired at Ukraine, as Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for updated air-defence systems to meet the new threat.

The latest statements from the leaders came hours after Ukraine’s parliament shut down over heightened fears of a missile attack.

A day after Moscow fired the new missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro, Putin said there would be more tests of the new Oreshnik missile.

“We will continue these tests, including in combat conditions, depending on the situation and character of the security threats posted to Russia,” Putin said in a televised meeting with military chiefs.

Russia would also begin serial production of the new weapon, he added.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday they were already looking for updated air-defence systems from their allies in response to the new threat.

Earlier Friday, China’s foreign ministry had repeated its call for “calm” and “restraint” in the war after Russia confirmed it had fired the new ballistic missile.

In his video address however, Zelensky said: “From Russia, this is a mockery of the position of states such as China, states of the Global South, some leaders who call for restraint every time.”

Missile threat

The introduction of the new weapon into the battlefield has further raised tensions in the nearly three-year-long war, and comes as Kyiv’s forces are struggling on the ground.

On Friday, Russia claimed the capture of another village in eastern Ukraine.

Putin’s hints Thursday of strikes on Western countries raised fears of the war spilling over into a global conflict.

That sent the Russian ruble plunging on Friday to its lowest level against the US dollar since March 2022.

In a hawkish address to the nation on Thursday, Putin said Russia reserved the right to fire missiles at countries that allow Kyiv to hit Russian territory with their weapons, after the United States and the UK gave Kyiv the green light to do so.

Those strikes could be by the new Oreshnik missile.

Experts believe it flies at 10 times the speed of sound and may be able to strike targets up to 5,500 kilometres (3,400 miles) away — enough to make good on Putin’s threats of targeting Kyiv’s European allies but not enough to reach the United States.

‘Russian madness’ 

Branding the strike “this latest bout of Russian madness”, Zelensky on Friday urged Ukraine’s allies to step up their provision of air defences.

“Whatever the Russian missile threat, it cannot be ignored,” the president added — especially with Ukraine’s army on the back foot.

A source in the Ukrainian military said Russian forces were advancing by “200-300 metres a day” near the besieged Ukrainian logistics hub of Kurakhove, in the eastern Donetsk region that the Kremlin claims is part of Russia.

In Moscow, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov said Russia’s advances in war-battered eastern Ukraine had “ground down” Kyiv’s best units.

Russia also said its forces had “liberated” the frontline village of Novodmytrivka, about 10 kilometres north of Kurakhove.

‘Anything can happen’

In Kyiv, frequently targeted by Russian drones and missiles, parliament cancelled its usual Friday questions to the government over fears of a strike.

Several MPs said they were working remotely and that Friday’s session had been scrapped. Lawmaker Yevgenia Kravchuk told AFP there were signs of “increased risks of attacks” to come.

Unlike the rest of the capital, the government district has until now been spared of bombings.

Analysts say Moscow and Kyiv are racing to gain battlefield advantages ahead of January 2025, when Donald Trump is due to take office in the United States. Trump has vowed to end the war, without saying how.

Thursday’s Oreshnik missile attack, which apparently targeted an aerospace manufacturing plant in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro, sparked immediate condemnation from Kyiv’s allies.

It also shocked residents of Dnipro, which has suffered routine Russian bombardments throughout the invasion.

Yan Valetov, a writer from the area, said he had heard a very “strong roar” and a “series of explosions”.

The roof of a boiler room supplying heating to a rehabilitation centre completely collapsed from the blast wave, while debris and tiles lay scattered around underfoot.

Boiler room worker Oleksandr Parkhomenko, 63, said he was relieved the missile had caused few casualties, but worried about what might come next.

“Anything can happen,” he said.

In the streets of Moscow, supporters of President Vladimir Putin voiced confidence in Russia’s victory.

“Russia will overcome everything… Nobody can defeat it,” said Alexei Peshcherkin, a 57-year-old plumber.

But Yulia Kim, a 52-year-old doctor, said: “I am worried that a nuclear war will start”.

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The new intermediate-range ballistic missile called Oreshnik used by Russia in a strike on Ukraine is a nuclear-capable weapon that has not been previously mentioned in public.

In an unscheduled television appearance on Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin said the strike on the city of Dnipro had tested in combat conditions “one of the newest Russian mid-range missile systems”.

He said missile engineers had christened the missile Oreshnik, or hazel tree in Russian.

Putin said it had been deployed “in a non-nuclear hypersonic configuration” and said that the “test” had been successful and had hit its target.

Speed

Air defences cannot intercept the Oreshnik, which attacks at a speed of Mach 10, or 2.5-3 kilometres per second, Putin said.

Hypersonic missiles travel at speeds of at least Mach 5 — five times the speed of sound — and can manoeuvre mid-flight, making them harder to track and intercept.

“Modern air defence systems… cannot intercept such missiles. That’s impossible,” Putin said.

“As of today there are no means of counteracting such a weapon,” the president boasted.

Warheads

The Oreshnik missile could have three to six warheads, military expert Viktor Baranets wrote in the Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid.

Igor Korotchenko, editor of the Moscow-based National Defence journal, told TASS state news agency that based on video footage of the strike, Oreshnik has multiple independently guided warheads.

In this case they were conventional, but it could also carry nuclear warheads, military experts said.

The “practically simultaneous arrival of the warheads at the target” shows the system is “very effective”, Korotchenko said, calling it a “masterpiece of modern Russian solid-fuel military missile construction”.

Range

The missile was reported by Ukrainian media to have been fired from the Kapustin Yar range in the Astrakhan region, around 900 kilometres (550 miles) from Dnipro.

Putin described the missile in Russian as “medium-range” but Russian military experts said the English term would be “intermediate-range”.

An intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) has a range of 1,000-5,500 kilometres, a level below that of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

Military expert Ilya Kramnik told Izvestia newspaper that Oreshnik’s range could be at the top end of intermediate, around 3,000 – 5,000 kilometres.

“In any case we witnessed the first combat use in history by Russia of an intermediate-range missile,” Dmitry Kornev, editor of Military Russia website, told Izvestia.

Origins

The US Department of Defense described Oreshnik as an “experimental” missile based on Russia’s RS-26 Rubezh ICBM.

Little is known about Rubezh, a modification of Topol ICBM.

TASS state news agency reported, citing a source, in 2018 that development of Rubezh was frozen under the state weapons programme up to 2027, to prioritise another system, Avangard.

Russian weapons expert Yan Matveyev wrote on Telegram that Oreshnik probably had two stages and would be “quite expensive”, heavy and not mass-produced.

Threat

Its range means “Oreshnik can threaten practically all of Europe” but not the United States, weapons expert Pavel Podvig, director of the Russian Nuclear Forces Project, told Russian Telegram channel Ostorozhno Novosti.

The US and the Soviet Union in 1987 signed a treaty agreeing to give up all use of missiles with a range of 500 to 5,500 kilometres.

Both Washington and Moscow withdrew from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty in 2019, each accusing the other of violations.

Putin said Thursday that Russia will “address the question of further deployment of intermediate and shorter-range missiles based on the actions of the United States and its satellites”.

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