The hypersonic missile strike on Ukraine, according to Russia, served as a message to the “reckless” West.
A assault on Ukraine with a newly built hypersonic ballistic missile was planned as a warning to the West that Moscow will retaliate for their “reckless” decisions and actions in favor of Ukraine, the Kremlin warned on Friday. A day after President Vladimir Putin claimed that Moscow had fired the new missile, known as the Oreshnik or Hazel Tree, at a Ukrainian military installation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was speaking.
“The main message is that the reckless decisions and actions of Western countries that produce missiles, supply them to Ukraine and subsequently participate in strikes on Russian territory cannot remain without a reaction from the Russian side,” Peskov told reporters.
“The Russian side has clearly demonstrated its capabilities, and the contours of further retaliatory actions in the event that our concerns are not taken into account have been quite clearly outlined.”
Peskov claimed that although Russia was under no obligation to alert the United States about the strike, it had done so 30 minutes before to the launch.Peskov stated that although President Vladimir Putin was still amenable to communication, the departing government of U.S. President Joe Biden “prefers to continue down the path of escalation.”
After Ukraine, with Biden administration consent, hit Russia with six American-made ATACMS missiles on Tuesday and British Storm Shadow cruise missiles and American-made HIMARS on Thursday, Putin claimed on Thursday that Russia had shot the new missile.
He said this meant that the Ukraine war had now “acquired elements of a global character”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said Russia’s use of the new missile amounted to “a clear and severe escalation” in the war and called for strong worldwide condemnation.
