The state news agency TASS said it was the first time that the Defence Ministry had shown off the Oreshnik mobile missile systems, which President Vladimir Putin has declared are impossible to intercept because of missile speeds reportedly more than 10 times the speed of sound. A building shown in the video is the same size and shape as one depicted in a November 19 image from the Planet Labs commercial satellite company, said Jeffrey Lewis of the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, in California, and Decker Eveleth of the CNA research and analysis organization in Virginia. They credited a Russian military blogger, Dmitry Kornev, as being the first to match the sites in the video and the imagery through geolocation and post his finding on X.
Author: Andrew Osborn
Published at: 2025-12-30 23:24:00
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