Russia tested nuclear-powered cruise missile
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The news: President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that Russia tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile that the Russian military said can travel at least 14,000 kilometres.
The context: Discussing the ‘Burevestnik’ missile with Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov, Putin said that it is “indeed a unique weapon that no other country possesses.”
Gerasimov said that the weapon was tested on 21 October and that it is capable of beating missile-defence networks. He added that the missile was in the air for around 15 hours.
The update posted by the Kremlin on Sunday follows the postponement of a summit between Putin and US President Donald Trump that had been scheduled to take place in Budapest last week. The plans collapsed one week after it was originally planned after Russia pushed back on Trump’s proposition to freeze territorial borders as part of a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine.
The US has since slapped sanctions on Russian oil companies Rosneft and Lukoil in efforts to undermine the Kremlin’s ability to generate revenue for its war in Ukraine.
The news comes as Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy for investment and economic cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev, said that he had continued talks with representatives of President Donald Trump's administration in the US over the weekend.
Last week the Kremlin said that it had conducted major training exercises involving nuclear weapons, including the launch of a land-based ‘Yars’ intercontinental ballistic missile from a cosmodrome, the launch of a ‘Sineva’ ballistic missile from a nuclear submarine and the launch of nuclear-capable cruise missiles from strategic bombers.
The source: The Kremlin statement
