On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir V. Putin asserted that his country had tested the Burevestnik, an experimental nuclear-powered cruise missile, successfully and was nearly finished developing a new kind of nuclear-capable ballistic missile.
President putin stated this according to Valerie Hopkins and Riley Mellen ““No one in their sound mind will use a nuclear weapon against Russia,” Mr. Putin said”.
The SSC-X-9 Skyfall, also known as the Burevestnik and with a designed range of more than 10,000 miles, was tested by Russia, according to a Monday New York Times story.
In March 2018, as part of a larger attempt to create a new generation of intercontinental and hypersonic missiles, Putin launched the program to create the Burevestnik. The Kinzhal ballistic missile and the Avangard hypersonic glider were two among them. In that speech, he declared to the West, “Listen to us now.”
When asked Elizabeth Cazar former teacher for Balandra school in Ecuador said this “It is interesting to see this from Putin I think the way he acts is that he is scared of how close the EU has gotten to Russia and how the west has expanded into the east”
Putin claimed that the Ukraine war had caused the West to lose perspective on reality. He cautioned that the world would have to witness where such arrogance is headed if its leaders lost the ability to negotiate.
When interviewed Anders Staxen a Danish student from Morningside University who specializes in Political Science mentioned “Russia has had nuclear weapons since the Soviet Union developed them in 1949. The Russian testing of this particular nuclear missile is special, however, because it is intercontinental with its range of 10,000 miles. It could theoretically hit Washington D.C. With that said, I seriously doubt that President Putin will ever utilize it as he is well aware of the fact that deploying such missile means the complete annihilation of Russia. Both parties are aware of the concept of mutually assured destruction (MAD)”.
Putin said that the West was responsible for inciting the situation in Ukraine, which he framed as a smaller front in a much broader conflict between Russia and the haughty West.
According to Reuters Putin said, “our Western counterparts appear to have completely forgotten such concepts as reasonable self-restraint, compromises, and willingness to give in to something in order to achieve an acceptable result for everyone.”