Vladimir Putin has proposed a “high-tech duel” with the US to shoot down their new hypersonic ballistic missile over Kyiv as the despot claims it is “unstoppable.”
The Oreshnik missile was used on 21 November in Dnipro, eastern Ukraine in response to the West giving Kyiy permission to fire long-range missiles deep inside Russia.
Putin said, “There is no chance of shooting down these missiles.
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“Let them (Western experts who doubt the capacity of Russia’s Oreshnik missile system – TASS) call us and those in the West and the US who pay for their analysis out to conduct sort of a technological experiment and have a 21st century-style high-tech duel.
“Let them choose a target, say, in Kyiv, and amass their air and missile defense systems there, while we will launch an Oreshnik missile at the target.
“We’ll see what happens. We are ready for such an experiment, but is the other side ready?”
Putin who held his annual end-of-year news conference in Moscow said the war in Ukraine is “changing dramatically.”
He said, “I must say that the situation is changing dramatically… There is movement along the entire front line. Every day.
“The fighting is difficult, so it is difficult and pointless to guess what lies ahead… [but] we are moving, as you said, towards solving our primary tasks, which we outlined at the beginning of the special military operation.”
