Here is a print version of Putin's speech explaining the intention behind the attack yesterday on the city of Dnipro, where a demonstration of Russia’s new intermediate-range, multiple-warhead hypersonic missile system was conducted:
(Google translation)
https://kremlin-ru.translate.goog/events/president/news/75614?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true
Here are two paragraphs excerpted from the speech telling us, in detail, how Putin will deploy these missiles, if he finds it necessary to do so:
“We will offer in advance to civilians, and also ask citizens of friendly states located there, to leave the dangerous zones. We will do this for humanitarian reasons - openly, publicly, without fear of counteraction from the enemy, who will also receive this information.
“Why without fear? Because there are currently no means of counteracting such weapons. The missiles attack targets at a speed of 10 Mach - that is 2.5-3 kilometers per second. The modern air defense systems in the world and the missile defense systems created by the Americans in Europe do not intercept such missiles.’”
Combine that statement with what Maria Zakharova said today at her press conference – that a United States anti-missile base in Redzikowo, Poland ‘is a priority target for potential neutralization’.
https://www.politico.eu/article/us-military-base-poland-priority-target-russia-war-ukraine/
THIS is where we are, folks.
