A new Oreshnik hypersonic missile which was launched by Russia on Dnipro in Ukraine yesterday has the capability of reaching the UK in just 20 minutes, it is claimed
Britain could be hit by Vladimir Putin’s deadly new Oreshnik hypersonic missile “in just 20 minutes”, Ukrainian media has claimed.
The missile was dropped on Dnipro yesterday and Ukraine is bracing itself for further attacks with the country’s parliament cancelling a sitting amid fears of a mammoth strike on Kyiv. And it is also claimed by Times of Ukraine that the missile could hit Britain in in a matter of minutes. It is believed that the Oreshnik was likely a revamping of an old Cold War intercontinental RS-26 Rubezh missile.
“Most likely, the designation Oreshnik was invented by Vladimir Putin to create the impression of new missile capabilities and intimidate the West, because there is no information about Oreshnik in the public domain,” Roman Svitan, a reserve colonel in the Ukrainian armed forces.
“If it was Rubezh, then it has a range of 5,000 to 6,000 kilometres. It will reach London as well.” Time of Ukraine channel said its calculations are that the Oreshnok could hit Poland in 12 minutes from a launch in Russia., In 15 minutes it would hit Germany, and in 20 minutes Britain.
It emerged today that a North Korean general was wounded in the Kursk airstrike by British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles. The strike hit a sanatorium of the Russian Presidential Property Management Department, where, as Ukrainian channels suggest, a war command post was located.
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Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky demanded international action after the use of the powerful missile. Putin “is lying when he says that Ukraine’s use of long-range weapons is some kind of new step” he said.
“According to him, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have used such weapons “not for the first time.” He said: “The world must react to this. Putin is very sensitive to this. He is testing you, dear partners. He must be stopped. If there is no harsh reaction to Russia’s actions, then they see that this is possible. Putin must feel what his sick ambitions are worth.”
Ukraine’s parliament cancelled a scheduled session, said reports. “We were informed about the possible missile threat over the next couple of days [for the] parliament,” said MP Taras Batenko.
“We’ll see if it happens or not but I see that Putin raised the stakes for Ukrainian people and it’s obvious that Ukraine has to react to this. But more than Ukraine, the international community should react.” Meanwhile, the Sumy region in Ukraine was hit with Russian mortars laced with shrapnel in an apparent bid to harm civilians.
