As for high-precision systems, we have already multiplied the production of this kind of weaponry in the last two years, Borisov stressed.

Regarding the Oreshnik missiles, we have all the necessary capabilities to supply the Ministry of Defense, let’s say, in the required quantity, Borisov told Pavel Zarubin, a reporter from the Russian Television and Radio Company (VGTRK).

On November 21, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the United States and its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies had previously declared that they authorized the use of long-range precision weapons against the territory of the Russian Federation.

Following the statement, Russian military facilities in the Bryansk and Kursk regions bordering Ukraine were attacked by US- and UK-made missiles.

Putin said that Moscow responded to these Ukrainian attacks by using for the first time the Oreshnik ballistic missile, Russia’s newest medium-range, non-nuclear ballistic missile, which hit a facility of the neighboring country’s defense industrial complex, the Yuzhmash plant in Dniepropetrovsk.

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