{"id":656881,"date":"2025-12-27T01:05:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/656881\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T01:05:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T01:05:14","slug":"russia-likely-placing-new-hypersonic-missiles-at-former-airbase-in-belarus-researchers-find","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/656881\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia likely placing new hypersonic missiles at former airbase in Belarus, researchers find"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    WASHINGTON \u2013 <\/p>\n<p>Moscow is likely stationing new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at a former airbase in eastern Belarus, a development that could bolster Russia\u2019s ability to deliver missiles across Europe, two U.S. researchers have found by studying satellite imagery.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers&#8217; assessment broadly aligns with U.S. intelligence findings, said a person familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share information not authorized for public release.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has made clear his intention to place intermediate-range Oreshnik missiles, with an estimated range of up to 5,500 kilometers, in Belarus, but the exact location has not been previously reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2013 Moscow is likely stationing new nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missiles at a former airbase in eastern Belarus,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[1111,2598,332,7661,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-656881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-belarus","9":"tag-missiles","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-russia-ukraine-war","12":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115788849301550588","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}