{"id":148273,"date":"2025-10-27T19:08:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148273\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:08:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:08:17","slug":"vladimir-putin-observes-test-of-russias-new-nuclear-missile-and-threatens-its-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/148273\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin observes test of Russia\u2019s new nuclear missile and threatens its deployment"},"content":{"rendered":"

In video released by the Kremlin yesterday, Putin, dressed in camouflage fatigues, could be seen meeting with senior Russian military figures.<\/p>\n

The footage showed General Valery Gerasimov, Russia\u2019s chief of general staff, telling Putin that the Burevestnik missile covered 14,000km in a key test on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Gen Gerasimov said the Burevestnik, or Storm Petrel in Russian, spent 15 hours in the air on nuclear power, adding \u201cthat\u2019s not the limit\u201d.<\/p>\n

Putin then told the general: \u201cWe need to determine the possible uses and begin preparing the infrastructure for deploying these weapons to our armed forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also claimed the missile was invulnerable to current and future missile defences, due to its almost unlimited range and unpredictable flight path.<\/p>\n

\"Russian<\/p>\n

Russian president Vladimir Putin. Photo: AP<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Putin directed drills of Russia\u2019s strategic nuclear forces that featured practice missile launches. The exercise came after his planned summit on Ukraine with US president Donald Trump was put on hold.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin said the drills involved all parts of Moscow\u2019s nuclear triad, including intercontinental ballistic missiles that were test-fired from launch facilities in north-western Russia and a submarine in the Barents Sea. The drills also involved Tu-95 strategic bombers firing long-range cruise missiles.<\/p>\n

The exercise tested the skills of military command structures, the Kremlin said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin said yesterday that Russian armed forces will respond forcefully in the event of strikes deep inside Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike Mr Putin said, the response will be overwhelming,\u201d Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.<\/p>\n

Mr Peskov added that a date for the summit has not been agreed, and that Mr Trump was the one to postpone it after initially suggesting it could take place by the end of the month.<\/p>\n

But Mr Peskov insisted that the summit had not been cancelled, and said recent US sanctions against Russia\u2019s top oil companies were not a reason to abandon dialogue.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe presidents can\u2019t meet for the sake of meeting; they can\u2019t waste their time, and they\u2019re open about it,\u201d he said in an interview with Russian state TV released yesterday, describing peace talks as \u201ca complex process\u201d.<\/p>\n

Russia targeted Ukraine\u2019s capital with drones, killing three people in their homes, authorities said early yesterday.<\/p>\n

At least 29 people were wounded, seven of them children, in the second consecutive night-time attack on Kyiv to claim civilian lives. Ukraine\u2019s interior minister Ihor Klymenko said a 19-year-old woman and her 46-year-old mother were among those killed.<\/p>\n

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He couldn\u2019t get out because there was a fire, so he jumped down from the third floor into a nearby tree<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Russian drones caused fires in two residential buildings in the capital\u2019s Desnianskyi district. Emergency crews evacuated civilians from a nine-storey and a 16-storey building, put out flames and cleared the rubble.<\/p>\n

Olha Yevhenivha (74) said there was so much smoke from the fire that she couldn\u2019t leave her apartment.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven until now our windows are \u00adtotally black from the smoke, and it was impossible to go down, so that\u2019s why we put wet blankets on our doors and balcony,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Ihor Motchanyi, a soccer player, said he and his parents \u201cmiraculously survived\u201d after a drone sparked a blaze inside their home the day after his 25th birthday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother and I left. My father stayed behind in the apartment and wanted to take some documents, the most important things. He couldn\u2019t get out because there was a fire, so he jumped down from the [third] floor\u201d into a nearby tree, Mr Motchanyi said.<\/p>\n

He said his family were planning to leave Kyiv temporarily, and stay with relatives in a village.<\/p>\n

Russia attacked Ukraine with 101 drones overnight into yesterday, according to Ukraine\u2019s air force, of which 90 were shot down and neutralised.<\/p>\n

\"Volodymyr<\/p>\n

Volodymyr Zelensky. Photo: Julia Demaree Nikhinson<\/p>\n

Five drones hit four locations and drone debris fell on five other places, the statement said.<\/p>\n

The attack came a day after a Russian missiles and drones killed four people, including two in Kyiv, prompting fresh pleas from Ukraine\u2019s president Volodymyr Zelensky for Western air defence systems.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s defence ministry claimed yesterday that over the previous day, its forces struck energy facilities and rail infrastructure serving Ukraine\u2019s war effort, as well as other military targets such as troop deployment points and a drone factory.<\/p>\n

It did not comment specifically on strikes on Kyiv, nor on the civilian casualties reported by Ukraine.<\/p>\n

In Russia\u2019s Bryansk region near Ukraine, two civilians were \u00adhospitalised following Ukrainian drone strikes, according to regional governor Alexander Bogomaz. At least 26 Ukrainian drones were downed over south-western \u00adRussia yesterday, according to the defence ministry in Moscow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In video released by the Kremlin yesterday, Putin, dressed in camouflage fatigues, could be seen meeting with senior…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,356,13,14,6,6302,11,12,15,16,5,550,7,8,551,1543,2263,5445,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-148273","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-kyiv","15":"tag-latest-news","16":"tag-latestnews","17":"tag-main-news","18":"tag-mainnews","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-russia","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-topstories","23":"tag-ukraine","24":"tag-usa","25":"tag-vladimir-putin","26":"tag-volodymyr-zelensky","27":"tag-world","28":"tag-world-news","29":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115447707096212328","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}