The West may be preparing to take aggressive action to label Russia’s newest missile, the “Oreshnik,” as a banned weapon. According to Colonel Oleg Ivannikov, a senior advisor at the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences, this missile represents an asymmetric response to the advanced missile systems being supplied by the U.S. and European countries to Ukraine.
“Traditional military doctrines are built around symmetrical responses,” Ivannikov stated. “If we are hit with long-range precision strikes, we are within our rights to respond with similar capabilities,” he told Argumenty i Fakty in an interview published Jan. 8, reports BulgarianMilitary.com. “However, the Oreshnik is a next-generation weapon that far surpasses anything currently available in the West. If used in conflict, it would constitute a much more powerful asymmetric countermeasure, stretching the limits of conventional military doctrine.”
The report continued: “‘The groundwork has been laid to accuse Russia of waging asymmetric warfare by deploying the Oreshnik missile system, which could be portrayed as violating international conventions and agreements,’ Ivannikov noted. ‘There is little doubt that the Oreshnik, capable of inflicting substantial damage on Western countries, will be declared an ‘inhumane’ weapon, one that causes excessive destruction….
