{"id":1392489,"date":"2026-05-12T19:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/putin-threatened-nuclear-warheads-for-oreshnik\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T19:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:16:42","slug":"putin-threatened-nuclear-warheads-for-oreshnik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/putin-threatened-nuclear-warheads-for-oreshnik\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin threatened nuclear warheads for Oreshnik"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"799\" data-end=\"914\"><strong>Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has said that the Oreshnik missile system can be equipped with nuclear warheads.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"916\" data-end=\"956\"> This is reported by Russian media.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"958\" data-end=\"1103\"> According to him, since 2025, &#8220;Oreshnik&#8221; has allegedly been put on combat duty as a ground-based medium-range missile system.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1105\" data-end=\"1291\"> &#8220;From 2025, the Oreshnik ground-based medium-range missile system, which can also be equipped with nuclear warheads, will be put on combat duty,&#8221; Putin said.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1293\" data-end=\"1439\"> Also, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces, Sergei Karakayev, reported to Putin about the successful launch of the new Sarmat missile complex.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1441\" data-end=\"1557\"> Putin himself stated that work on the Sarmat began back in 2011, and this complex has been talked about publicly since 2018.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1559\" data-end=\"1717\"> The Kremlin dictator called the Sarmat &#8220;the most powerful missile system in the world&#8221; and stated that it allegedly outperformed Western counterparts by more than four times.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1719\" data-end=\"1840\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> According to him, the complex can move along a suborbital trajectory, which provides a range of over 35 thousand kilometers.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1719\" data-end=\"1840\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"> As a reminder, the self-proclaimed President of Belarus <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">,<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/lukashenko-znovu-pohrozhuie-orieshnikom-i-nazvav-mozhlyvi-tsili\/\"><span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">Alexander<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">Lukashenko<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">,<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">reacted<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">to<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">statements<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">from<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">Ukraine<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">that<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">the<\/span><\/a> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">Oreshnik<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\"><a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/lukashenko-znovu-pohrozhuie-orieshnikom-i-nazvav-mozhlyvi-tsili\/\">missile<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">system<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">deployed<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">on<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">the<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">territory<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">of<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">Belarus<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">could<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">be<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">considered<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">a legitimate<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">military<\/span> <span class=\"BZ_Pyq_fadeIn\">target.<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian dictator Vladimir Putin has said that the Oreshnik missile system can be equipped with nuclear warheads. 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According to him, since 2025, &#8220;Oreshnik&#8221; has allegedly been put on combat duty as a ground-based medium-range missile system. &#8220;From 2025, the Oreshnik ground-based medium-range missile system, which can also be equipped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1342261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1392489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1392489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1392489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1342261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1392489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1392489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}