Putin warns that Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles makes war “a global conflict”

Confirms the launch of the Oreshnik, a new medium-range missile for which Western air defense systems are not prepared

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The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, assured this Thursday that, after the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked Russian territory with long-range missiles supplied by Occidental and with the approval of the United States, the war in Ukraine has become “a global conflict.”

“From this moment on, as we have repeatedly stressed, the conflict in Ukraine, previously provoked by the West, has acquired elements of a global nature,” said Putin, who, during a brief speech to the nation, confirmed the Ukrainian attacks, that are not yet official from kyiv.

Thus, Putin has detailed that the Ukrainian attacks – on Tuesday with American ATACMS missiles and this Thursday with the British Storm Shadow – were directed against military objectives in the Bryansk and Kursk regions, both bordering Ukraine, although they did not They achieved their goal.

Amid the increase in tensions, President Putin took the opportunity to ratify the new nuclear doctrine, while the Russian Aramdas Forces launched this Thursday a new “medium-range missile system” called Oreshnik against “an installation of the Ukrainian military sector “, as confirmed by the president.

“We are carrying out combat tests of the Oreshnik missile system in response to the aggressive actions of NATO countries towards Russia,” said Putin, who stressed that Moscow will respond “decisively and spectacularly” to an “escalation of aggressive actions” against him.

“I recommend to the ruling elites of those countries that have plans to use their military contingents against Russia to seriously think about this,” added the Russian leader, who clarifies that, in the event of launching a large-scale attack against Ukraine, he will warn in advance. to civilians and will offer them to leave the area.

Despite everything, and even recognizing an intensification of tensions in Ukraine that now involve other international agents, the Russian leader has stressed that Moscow remains willing to “resolve all issues by peaceful means”, although it is alert to “any possible development” of the situation.

These statements by President Putin come in a context marked by increasing tensions around the war in Ukraine. Russia claims that Ukraine has launched long-range Western-made missiles against its territory, although kyiv has not yet commented on the matter.

ORESHNIK, THE NEW RUSSIAN MISSILE

This new model of medium-range missiles have the capacity to advance between 2.5 and three kilometers per second, a speed at which air defense systems currently available in the world, even American systems, are not capable of intercepting. as you have specified.

Thus, President Putin has praised the capabilities of the new Oreshnik, which he says will be used by Moscow “openly, publicly and without fear of enemy opposition” because, according to the Russian leader, “today there are no means to counter these weapons.

Shortly after, Kremlin spokesman Dimitri Peskov pointed out that the Russian authorities did not notify the United States or any other country of the first launch of the Oreshnik, since Moscow “has no such obligation with respect to medium-range missiles,” according to statements collected by the TASS agency.

For his part, the former Russian president and current vice president of the country’s Security Council, Dimitri Medvedev, has also spoken about these new capabilities and, in a publication on his social networks, has attached a video of the moment of the Oreshnik launch. .

“Is this what you wanted? Well, this is what you have, damn it. An attack by a hypersonic ballistic missile,” Medvedev said in his profile on Ukrainian attacks with long-range Western missiles and international pressure on Moscow.

The war in Ukraine broke out more than a thousand days ago after Putin himself ordered the invasion of his neighboring country at the end of February 2022. Since then the conflict has progressed without interruption, with the front lines practically stagnant since then. , although with clashes also in Russian territory after the Ukrainian incursion on Kursk last August.