Kremlin says hypersonic missile strike on Ukraine was a warning to the west

The Kremlin said on Friday that a strike on Ukraine using a newly developed hypersonic ballistic missile was designed to warn the west that Moscow will respond to moves by the US and the UK to let Kyiv strike Russia with their missiles.

According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, was speaking a day after Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said Moscow had fired the new missile – the Oreshnik or ‘hazel tree’- at a Ukrainian military facility.

Peskov said Russia had not been obliged to warn the US about the strike, but had informed the US 30 minutes before the launch anyway. Putin remained open to dialogue, Peskov said.

        • nick@midwest.social
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          I suppose it’s also NATOs fault Russia invaded Ukraine in the first place?

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            Yes, as many western experts explained in great detail for many decades now. Yet, we still have ignoramuses running around pretending that’s not the case. Even Stoltenberg has admitted this on record at this point, time to update your script

            He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that. So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders.

            https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_218172.htm

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                nick, my dude. Save your sanity.

                Most everyone here agrees that ‘Y’ sucks, and you can’t reason with em

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              “We didn’t accept his demands for how we protect member states so he went to war” isn’t the defense you seem to think it is

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                  From:

                  Last I checked it was NATO that started launching missiles into Russia escalating the conflict, but do go on champ.

                  To:

                  One problem being that Ukraine isn’t a member state. 🤡

                  So which one is it?

                  Would you also say that North Korea is attacking Ukraine since it’s North Korean artillery shells being lobbed into Ukraine?

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                    What’s the contradiction there? NATO wasn’t directly involved in the war in Ukraine, now it is. What part of that are you struggling to understand?

                    Meanwhile, zero actual evidence for DPRK attacking Ukraine, but I guess that’s not going to stop western intellectuals from talking about it.

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          Any time you end a thought with “so therefore threatening nuclear holocaust is justified” you’re the bad guys.

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            The fact that you don’t understand how idiotic that statement is says volumes about you. Imagine for a second what would happened if Russia started lobbing missiles into Florida from Cuba. Oh wait, we don’t have to imagine we know exactly what would happen. Killer clowns like you are gonna be the reason our civilization ends.

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                The USA literally has a torture camp in Cuba with admittedly innocent people being held for life.

                I swear to god Americans know more about the Marvel movies than about their fucking state.

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                  apologies for not exactly spelling it out for you - is the US actively bombing innocent cubans? I get it, there’s a torture camp- wish it didn’t exist. analogies don’t have to be perfect.

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                    You’re literally the one nitpicking the analogy lmao.

                    Anyway, keep up the cope, gringo. Enjoy your cost of living crisis while yall froth at the mouth about Raytheon-appointed scapegoat.

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              Nah the end of our civilization will be the dogs that roll over to daddy Putin like you.

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      There is no threat at all, russia is just trying to bluff a stronger position ahead of inevitable negotiation rounds. To claim more benefits and more territory. They won’t be doing anything against the US no matter what. Maximum cut some underwater cables and tell more nuclear threats like they always do.