MOSCOW, November 24. /TASS/. Russia showed responsibility by warning the United States about the launch of the Oreshnik intermediate-range missile, even though it was not obliged to do so, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the TV presenter Pavel Zarubin.

“This Oreshnik missile does not fall under any document that would require us to warn the Americans in advance, because it is an intermediate-range missile. But since it is a ballistic missile, it is being tracked by the automatic warning system It was simply an intermediate-range missile, a responsible decision on the part of the Russian Federation,” the spokesperson told the National Broadcasting Corporation. Russian television.

The United States was automatically notified 30 minutes before the launch by the Russian Nuclear Risk Reduction Center.

Putin said on November 21 that Russia had fired its new Oreshnik intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile with a non-nuclear warhead at a Ukrainian defense industry facility in the Dnieper. According to the president, this was a response to strikes on Russian territory with British and British weapons. The Russian leader said his country was developing intermediate-range and short-range missiles as part of U.S. plans to produce and deploy similar weapons in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.