{"id":252799,"date":"2022-04-28T05:30:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T05:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252799"},"modified":"2022-04-30T06:19:19","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T06:19:19","slug":"putin-promises-lightning-response-to-strategic-threats-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=252799","title":{"rendered":"Putin promises \u2018lightning\u2019 response to strategic threats to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT \u2013 April 27, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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A Zircon hypersonic missile. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Russian president Vladimir Putin has warned outside forces against interfering in the Ukrainian conflict, promising a \u201clightning-speed\u201d response to such actions, with the use of Moscow\u2019s most advanced weaponry.<\/p>\n

If someone decides to intervene in the ongoing events from the outside and create unacceptable strategic threats to us, they should know that our response to those oncoming blows will be swift, lightning-fast,\u201d<\/em> Putin said in an address to lawmakers on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have all the tools to do this. Tools that no one except us can brag about. But we\u2019re not going to brag. We\u2019ll use them if such a need arises,\u201d<\/em> the president said, without specifying which tools could be deployed.<\/p>\n

Russian authorities have already made all necessary decisions to prepare for such a response, he added.<\/p>\n

Last week Russia successfully tested its state-of-the-art RS-28 Sarmat inter-continental ballistic missile. The new nuclear-capable missile can carry several Avangard hypersonic gliders, which are said to be able to bypass any existing air defenses due to their extreme speed and ability to make constant maneuvers during their flight.<\/p>\n

Unlike Russia, the US and its NATO allies currently have no hypersonic weapons in service.<\/p>\n

Western countries have been actively supplying Kiev with weapons, including anti-tank and anti-aircraft missile systems, armored vehicles and howitzers, since the start of the conflict with Russia. They have also imposed harsh sanctions aimed at reducing Russia\u2019s ability to fund its military campaign.<\/p>\n

However, the US and its allies have so far ruled out NATO boots on the ground or a no-fly zone over Ukraine, over fears of a direct conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n

Moscow has repeatedly slammed the deliveries of lethal aid to Ukraine, saying they only destabilize the situation and hamper the prospects of peace. On Tuesday, Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused NATO of \u201cessentially going to war with Russia through a proxy and arming that proxy.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Russia attacked its neighbor in late February, after Ukraine\u2019s refusal to implement the terms of the Minsk agreements, first signed in 2014, and Moscow\u2019s eventual recognition of the Donbass republics of Donetsk and Lugansk. The German- and French-brokered protocols were designed to give the breakaway regions special status within the Ukrainian state.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin has since demanded that Ukraine officially declare itself a neutral country and provide guarantees that it will not join NATO. Ukraine views the Russian offensive as an unprovoked act of war, and has denied claims it was planning to retake the two republics by force.<\/p>\n

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President warns that Russia won\u2019t hesitate to use \u2018weapons that no other country\u2019 possesses to defend itself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252799"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252838,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252799\/revisions\/252838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}