{"id":664018,"date":"2025-12-31T05:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664018\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T05:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T05:21:12","slug":"russia-puts-nuclear-capable-oreshnik-missile-on-combat-duty-in-belarus-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664018\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia puts nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile on \u2018combat duty\u2019 in Belarus \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Talks between Washington and Kyiv on ending Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine have reached a crucial stage, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday to discuss peace terms. Zelenskyy reported that Trump had offered Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/volodymyr-zelenskyy-ukraine-peace-plan-to-national-referendum-us-security-guarantees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">15 years of security guarantees<\/a> from the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukraine leader has repeatedly accused Moscow of feigning interest in ending the war while continuing to attack its territory.<\/p>\n<p>Russia had used the Oreshnik, armed with conventional explosives, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/putin-confirms-russia-fired-new-ballistic-missile-at-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to strike an industrial complex<\/a> in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in November 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/vladimir-putin-russia-hypersonic-oreshnik-missiles-belarus-aleksandr-lukashenko\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said at the time<\/a> that he had asked Putin to send the missiles to his country, citing anxiety over the presence of Polish and Lithuanian troops near his country\u2019s western border. Lukashenko <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/12\/18\/8012472\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed delivery<\/a> of the weapons on Dec. 18.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russia-to-produce-new-hypersonic-missiles-in-mass-says-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A year ago, Putin promised<\/a> to bring the Oreshnik into serial production. Moscow confirmed the deployment to Belarus had been long planned, with the Defense Ministry noting that \u201claunch, communications, security and power supply crew specialists\u201d had undergone \u201cretraining on modern training equipment before entering combat duty.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talks between Washington and Kyiv on ending Russia\u2019s war on Ukraine have reached a crucial stage, with Ukrainian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[110744,1111,768,473,32,2598,332,811,657,49,333,2601,771,335,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-664018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-alexander-lukashenko","9":"tag-belarus","10":"tag-borders","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-donald-trump","13":"tag-missiles","14":"tag-russia","15":"tag-security","16":"tag-ukraine","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-vladimir-putin","19":"tag-volodymyr-zelenskyy","20":"tag-war","21":"tag-war-in-ukraine","22":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115812504901953056","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664018","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=664018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}