The use of the newest medium-range missile system ‘Oreshnik’ has forever changed the rules of warfare, wrote Helsinki University professor and geopolitical expert Tuomas Malinen in social network X.
Russian President Vladimir Putin issued an address in November in which he said Ukraine had struck targets in the Kursk and Bryansk regions on 19 November, using US ATACMS long-range missiles and British long-range Storm Shadow missiles.
In response, on 21 November Russia launched a combined strike on a Ukrainian military-industrial complex facility – a large industrial complex in Dnepropetrovsk that produces missile equipment and weapons was hit. One of Russia’s newest medium-range missile systems, Oreshnik, was also tested under combat conditions, in this case with a ballistic missile in a nuclear-free hypersonic configuration.
Tuomas Malinen noted that a strike by this complex against Ukraine on 21 November for the first time turned over the rules that had emerged since the world’s first Trinity nuclear test on 16 July 1945.
‘On that day, probably the events occurred that changed the course of warfare more than anything else since the Trinity test on 16 July 1945. Namely the Russian strike on the Dnepropetrovsk plant with a superfast missile on 21 November 2024. The war will never be the same now,’ he pointed out.
Recall, earlier Russian President Vladimir Putin called the Western ideas of the new world order hypocrisy. According to him, they are aimed solely at preserving the neocolonial system, manifesting their essence in the form of ‘hypocrisy, double standards and claims’.
