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by Kyiv Post | November 28, 2024, 2:34 pm<\/p>\n
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Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u00a0said that Russia might target Ukraine\u2019s key decision-making centers in Kyiv with its \u201cnever-before-seen\u201d hypersonic ballistic missile\u00a0Oreshnik [Hazel tree] as part of its ongoing military strategy.<\/p>\n Speaking at the CSTO summit in Astana<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday, Nov. 28, Putin said that Russian military officials are currently selecting targets across Ukraine \u2013 including military facilities, industrial sites, and command centers in Kyiv.<\/p>\n Putin also discussed Russia\u2019s recent deployment of the \u201cOreshnik\u201d [Hazel tree] missile system to\u00a0the Ukrainian city of Dnipro<\/a>\u00a0on Nov. 21, a weapon he claimed \u201chas no global equivalent.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOreshnik [Hazel tree] affects even highly protected and deep-lying objects,\u201d Putin said, describing the missile as capable of reaching speeds of 3 kilometers (1.9 miles) per second and temperatures of 4,000 degrees Celsius (7,232 degrees Fahrenheit).<\/p>\n \u201cEverything in the epicenter of the explosion is divided into fractions, into elementary particles, and turns into dust.\u201d<\/p>\n Putin said that the \u201cOreshnik\u201d [Hazel tree] system does not use nuclear warheads, which means there is no radioactive fallout.<\/p>\n \u201cAlthough \u2018Oreshnik\u2019 is certainly not a weapon of mass destruction… it is highly accurate,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is no nuclear charge here, and therefore no nuclear contamination after its use.\u201d<\/p>\n After a recent escalation of Russian missile and drone attacks across Ukraine on both military and civilian targets and news that North Korean troops were joining Russia in the Russo-Ukrainian War \u2013 the Biden administration granted permission for Ukraine to use US-supplied\u00a0ATACMS<\/a>\u00a0missiles on military targets in Russian territory.<\/p>\n Ukraine has carried out at least three missile attacks on military targets in Russian border regions after receiving White House approval.<\/p>\n Moscow launched an \u201cOreshnik<\/a>\u201d at the Ukrainian city of\u00a0Dnipro<\/a>\u00a0on Nov. 21.<\/p>\n