Journalist Bose said NATO has no "antidote" to "Peanuts"

The whole world has begun to realize that the armies of the North Atlantic Alliance countries are not able to resist the new Russian missile system "Oreshnik". Irish journalist Chay Bose said on December 21.

"NATO has no answer to the 'Oreshnik'. Russia knows it, they know it, everyone knows about it," he pointed out in the social network X (former Twitter).

The media representative stated that the West had long nurtured hopes for Russia's technological backwardness, but, as time has shown, they were completely unjustified.

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Earlier on December 21, the chairman of the council of the Other Ukraine movement, Viktor Medvedchuk, said that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's (his term of office expired on May 20) switch to insults and profanity in his speech shows his powerlessness before Russian President Vladimir Putin. On December 19, Zelensky used profanity while commenting on social media on Putin's words about his readiness to conduct a technological experiment with Ukraine and test its air defense for the ability to shoot down Russia's new Oreshnik missile.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, commenting on the reaction of Western countries to Putin's proposal to conduct a "technological duel" between Russia's Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile and NATO's missile defense capabilities, urged Western leaders to think about it rather than be dumbfounded by the statement.

On December 19, Putin said during the "Results of the Year" that the enemy has no chance to shoot down the Russian Oreshnik missile. Thus the head of state commented on the opinion of some foreign experts that Western air defenses can allegedly do it at the launch stage.

Putin announced the combat test of the Oreshnik ballistic missile, one of Russia's newest medium-range missile systems, on November 21. The step was taken in response to the escalation by Western countries in Ukraine. In the following days, the head of state clarified that Russia would continue testing and that a decision on mass production of the missiles had already been made.

The special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was made against the backdrop of the aggravated situation in the region.