орешники труднo изыскать: a text collage & the hazelnut trees are falling
Zelenskyy's adviser Mykhailo Podolyak claims them to be a fiction: “Putin doesn’t understand military stuff. He’s a guy that people come and show him some cartoon about how the missile will fly, how nobody will be able to shoot it down. He said the same thing many times about their Kinzhal missile. And then when it turned out that Patriot, even the not-the-latest-generation systems, can comfortably shoot it down, he stopped talking about it.” I will also say, the Guardian has him say, There is no such thing as a hazelnut tree. The question arises as to the existence of the ICBM named after it, the 'oreshnik,' to establish which, we can do no better than refer to Reuters: Enter ‘Oreshnik’ On Nov. 21, a new kind of Russian missile carrying six warheads struck Dnipro, Ukraine. Senior officials said it caused limited damage. But the first combat use of such a design — which Russian President Vladimir Putin called unstoppable — has drawn scrutiny from Western military experts. By Gerry Doyle, Tom Balmforth and Mariano Zafra Published Nov. 28, 2024 07:00 PM GMT+13 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>supported by TIMESNOW<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
6 days ago [today 29.11.2024], the bbc:
On Thursday [21.11.2024],the Ukrainian city of Dnipro was hit by a Russian air strike which eyewitnesses described as unusual, triggering explosions that went on for three hours.
Putin said that the weapon travelled at a speed of Mach 10, or 2.5-3km per second (10 times the speed of sound).
... there seems to be no clear consensus about what it actually is.
Ukrainian military intelligence maintains that the missile is a new type of ICBM known as Kedr (cedar). They say it was travelling at Mach 11 ... They said the missile was equipped with six warheads, each with six sub-munitions. (Confirmed by Reuters's looking at the pictures. See above.)
Ilya Kramnik, Russian military expert, said that it could be a reduced version of the Yars-M missile complex, which is an ICBM.
......... The attack on Dnipro amounted to prototype testing .........
