{"id":262367,"date":"2022-12-14T08:25:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T08:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262367"},"modified":"2022-12-15T08:05:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T08:05:03","slug":"russia-ramping-up-production-of-most-powerful-weapons-medvedev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262367","title":{"rendered":"Russia Ramping Up Production of \u2018Most Powerful\u2019 Weapons: Medvedev"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Defense Post with AFP \u2013 Dec 12, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Russia\u2019s ex-president <strong>Dmitry Medvedev<\/strong> said on Sunday the country was ramping up production of new-generation weapons to protect itself from enemies in Europe, the United States, and Australia.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Russian-President-Medvedev.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-54773 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Russian-President-Medvedev.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Russian-President-Medvedev.jpg 460w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Russian-President-Medvedev-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are increasing production of the most powerful means of destruction. Including those based on new principles,\u201d Medvedev said on messaging app Telegram.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur enemy dug in not only in the Kyiv province of our native Malorossiya,\u201d\u00a0Medvedev\u00a0said, using the term to describe territories of modern-day Ukraine that were part of the Russian Empire under the tsars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is in Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and a whole number of other places that pledged allegiance to the Nazi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev, who serves as deputy head of\u00a0Russia\u2019s Security Council, did not provide details of the\u00a0weapons.<\/p>\n<p>President <strong>Vladimir Putin<\/strong> repeatedly said that\u00a0Russia\u00a0has been developing new types of\u00a0weapons,\u00a0including hypersonic\u00a0weapons that he boasts can circumvent all existing missile defense systems.<\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedefensepost.com\/2022\/02\/23\/russia-military-operation-ukraine\/\">Putin sent troops to Ukraine<\/a> on February 24, 57-year-old\u00a0Medvedev\u00a0has regularly taken to social media to write increasingly bombastic posts.<\/p>\n<p>With Moscow on the back foot in its offensive in pro-Western Ukraine, the military stalemate has raised fears that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedefensepost.com\/2022\/05\/05\/russia-nuclear-capable-missile-strikes\/\">Russia\u00a0could resort to its nuclear arsenal<\/a> to achieve a military breakthrough.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Putin said\u00a0Russia\u00a0could amend its military doctrine by introducing the possibility of a preemptive strike to disarm an enemy, in an apparent reference to a nuclear attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin chief claimed that\u00a0Russia\u2019s cruise missiles and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedefensepost.com\/2022\/08\/18\/russia-hypersonic-missiles-kaliningrad\/\">hypersonic systems<\/a> were \u201cmore modern and even more efficient\u201d than those in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedefensepost.com\/2022\/12\/12\/russia-ramping-production-weapons\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after Putin warned that Moscow could amend its military doctrine to open the way for pre-emptive strikes, Russia\u2019s former president said Russia is ramping up the production of a new generation of weapons<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262367","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=262367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262383,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262367\/revisions\/262383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}