US administration urged to de-escalate conflict in Ukraine over 'Nutshell'
The United States needs to de-escalate the Ukrainian conflict over the Russian Oreshnik missile. The National Interest magazine reported on December 8 that.
"Without being able to create its own arsenal of hypersonic weapons capable of competing with the "Oreshnik" and without any viable defense against these systems, now is the time for any rational American leader to go for de-escalation," the publication said.
As the piece notes, the United States is barely managing to produce ammunition to supply the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and cannot come close to Russia's defense industrial complex capabilities.
The publication calls "Oreshnik" unstoppable and also emphasizes the lack of any country's defense system against it.
The day before, on December 7, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, said that Western experts are studying which military facilities of NATO countries will be within the radius of defeat of the "Oreshnik" system if it is deployed in Belarus.
On the same day, Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Belarusian Armed Forces Sergei Lagodyuk said that the decision to deploy the Russian complex "Oreshnik" was made against the background of the position of the United States and Germany on the deployment of medium-range missiles in Europe.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the combat test of the Oreshnik ballistic missile, one of Russia's newest medium-range missile systems, on November 21. He emphasized that the move was in response to the escalation by Western countries in Ukraine. In the following days, the head of state specified that Russia would continue these tests and that the decision on the serial production of the missiles had already been made.
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