President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia will continue to test and start mass-producing the hypersonic ballistic missile that it fired at Ukraine Thursday. <\/p>\n
The experimental strike Thursday marked a decisive moment in Moscow\u2019s war <\/strong>and capped off a dramatic week that <\/strong>has transformed the conflict. The firing of the missile came after the White House authorized Ukraine to fire its long-range missiles into Russia. <\/p>\n In a televised meeting with the leadership of Russia\u2019s defense ministry, Putin claimed the missile could not be intercepted by air defenses and said Russia will begin serial production of the new weapon. <\/p>\n \u201cThere are currently no means of countering such a missile, no means of intercepting it, in the world. And I will emphasize once again: We will continue testing the latest system,\u201d Putin said. <\/p>\n Putin added <\/strong>Russia was developing \u201cseveral similar systems\u201d for further testing. <\/p>\n \u201cBased on the test results, these weapons will also go into production. That is, we are developing a whole line of medium- and shorter-range systems,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n Putin\u2019s comments come a day after Russia fired the \u201cOreshnik\u201d missile \u2013 which contains multiple warheads \u2013 at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro. <\/p>\n Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attack, saying in a video posted on Telegram that \u201ctoday, our crazy neighbor has once again shown who he really is and how he despises dignity, freedom and human life in general.\u201d <\/p>\n Zelensky said Friday that Ukraine was holding meetings with its allies about developing \u201cnew air defense systems\u201d in response to the new threat from Russia. <\/p>\n Poland\u2019s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, a key ally of Ukraine, said <\/strong>the conflict was \u201centering a decisive phase.\u201d <\/p>\n NATO and Ukraine are due to hold talks next week following Russia\u2019s firing of the <\/strong>experimental missile. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia will continue to test and start mass-producing the hypersonic ballistic missile that it fired at Ukraine Thursday. The experimental strike Thursday marked a decisive moment in Moscow\u2019s war and capped off a dramatic week that has transformed the conflict. The firing of the missile came after the White <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}