Days after staging their largest ever drone attack on Kyiv, Russia has closed airspace for three days around a testing site for its ‘unstoppable’ hypersonic ballistic Oreshnik missile. Moscow issued a notice to airmen and shut the airspace ‘from ground level to unlimited altitude’ from 4am today until 8pm on November 30.

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.

This is the first time Russia has used its so-called Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in combat. The launch also serves as a warning to the West.

Vladimir Putin has claimed Moscow launched a new hypersonic ballistic missile against Ukraine in response to strikes by Kyiv inside Russia using UK and US long-range missiles.

As tensions rise, the deployment of such advanced weapons marks a concerning escalation in the conflict, signalling a potential new phase of warfare

Hypersonic weapons like Russia’s Oreshnik missile present a formidable challenge to existing missile defense systems. However, defenses capable of intercepting them do exist.

Russian deputy Anatoly Wasserman claims that Vladimir Putin has a secret weapon that remains unknown to the public. The new Oreshnik missile, launched on November 21 over the Ukrainian Dnipro River, is just the beginning,

Russian Deputy Anatoly Wasserman claims that Vladimir Putin has a secret weapon that remains unknown to the public. According to this Russian propagandist, the new Oreshnik missile, launched on November 21st at the Ukrainian Dnieper,