Kremlin says hypersonic missile strike on Ukraine was a warning to the west

The Kremlin said on Friday that a strike on Ukraine using a newly developed hypersonic ballistic missile was designed to warn the west that Moscow will respond to moves by the US and the UK to let Kyiv strike Russia with their missiles.

According to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, was speaking a day after Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said Moscow had fired the new missile – the Oreshnik or ‘hazel tree’- at a Ukrainian military facility.

Peskov said Russia had not been obliged to warn the US about the strike, but had informed the US 30 minutes before the launch anyway. Putin remained open to dialogue, Peskov said.

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    Pretty much, yes. If one great power keeps threatening and encroaching on another and undermines all attempts at diplomacy, it's pretty obvious what is going to happen.

    • Devorlon@lemmy.zip
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      1 month ago

      Yes the greatest threat, if you attack me and my friends we'll attack you. Very scary so aggressive

      • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]
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        1 month ago

        Hey neighbor, you don't mind if I invite over my serial killer friend with "1488 gas all Devorlons" tattooed across his forehead to stay over for a while, right? Btw we're building a deer hunting stand in my yard with a perfect view of the couch you post from, don't freak out about it though. It's just a couple of guys hanging out.

        • Devorlon@lemmy.zip
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          1 month ago

          Yep, just you and your friend in your property, as long as you don't attack it doesn't matter.

          https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ukraine-crisis-usa-idUSKBN2BV2Z3/

          • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]
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            1 month ago

            You genuinely think that someone who specifically wants to kill you making preparations from which they can kill you is fine, as long as they don't actually kill you? You're not a tiny bit bothered by the possibility of them actually killing you?

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        1 month ago

        Me and my friends, just standing here next to you, brandishing our weapons...

        • Devorlon@lemmy.zip
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          1 month ago

          As a deterrent, because I've never seen a NATO country attack Russia but have seen Russia invade plenty of countries not in NATO.

          It's almost like countries want to join NATO to avoid being invaded by Russia.

          • robinn_
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            1 month ago

            Operation Gladio by Paul L. Williams

            Gladio: NATO’s Dagger Through the Heart of Europe by Richard Cottrell

            *details on NATO false-flag terrorism in Italy to frame communists and rig elections against them (so that Italy wouldn’t increase ties to the USSR chiefly), NATO Nazi stay-behind armies in numerous states that were used to crush left-wing movements, etc.

            How NATO Worked With Fascists to Crush the Left in Turkey

            NATO controlled the very forces in the countries that would guarantee its stay there, rigging elections against and terrorizing movements that could potentially throw them out. You are sanitizing a Nazi fascist organization by omitting this aspect and simplifying NATO membership to a straightforwardly consensual relationship and I think you should be banned, along with everyone who liked your comment if that’s the policy now.