Putin responded with a Soviet-era joke to a question about targets for "Oreshnik"

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on 28 November in response to a question regarding possible strikes on decision-making centers in Ukraine, including with Oreshnik missile systems, that "everything is possible today during the day".

"There was such a joke in Soviet times about the weather forecast: the forecast is like this - today during the day everything is possible," the Russian leader said at a press conference following his visit to Astana.

Strip it down to "Oreshnik": Putin supported the adoption of the missile system into service

At a meeting with the developers, the president called this complex a guarantor of Russia's security

On November 21, the Russian president said that Ukraine had used Western long-range weapons against the Russian state, which made the regional conflict acquire elements of a global one. He also said that one of the newest Russian medium-range missile systems, the Oreshnik ballistic missile, had been tested under combat conditions.

Before that, on November 19, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the S-400 SAM and Pantsir SAM systems in the Bryansk region shot down five ATACMS missiles fired by the AFU and damaged another one. The wreckage of the latter fell on the territory of a military facility, without casualties or damage.

The special operation to protect Donbass, which began on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the background of the worsening situation in the region.