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[l] at 11/22/24 12:25pm
Russia's Strategic Missile Forces carried out a real-world combat test of the Oreshnik hypersonic missile system on Thursday, targeting a major Ukrainian defense enterprise. Sputnik asked military experts specializing in missile technology how the new ballistic missile compares to US developments, and what explains Russia's lead in the field.
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[l] at 11/22/24 12:07pm
Scott Bennett, a former US Army Special Operations officer, psychological warfare expert, whistleblower and Sputnik pundit, passed away on Thursday, November 21 in Walnut Creek, California. He was 46.
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[l] at 11/22/24 11:44am
Tehran will deploy advanced centrifuges in response to the IAEA resolution criticizing its nuclear cooperation, the Iranian Foreign Ministry announced.

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[l] at 11/22/24 11:03am
Hyacinths, peonies, cornflowers, and carnations aren't just wonderful, sweet-smelling flowers; they're also the names of some of Russia's deadliest weapons systems. On Thursday, Russia added the Oreshnik (lit. Hazel) hypersonic missile system to the list.
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[l] at 11/22/24 10:00am
The Oreshnik missile flies at a speed of Mach 10, or 3 km per second, retired Russian Army colonel and military analyst Viktor Litovkin told Sputnik, explaining why it can't be intercepted by modern air defenses.
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[l] at 11/22/24 10:00am
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A total of 46 residents of Russia's Kursk Region returned home as result of negotiation process with Ukraine, Russian Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova said on Friday.

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[l] at 11/22/24 9:40am
The Russian president made additional comments on the new Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile system at a meeting in the Kremlin on Friday evening with senior officials from the Ministry of Defense and representatives of the defense industry.

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[l] at 11/22/24 8:59am
Nothing to see here. Just a hypersonic demo. Well, not really. The average American is only capable of making (some sort of) sense of the world through movies. So let’s go back to a classic: the opening sequence of Coppola’s Apocalypse Now – the Vietnam war counterpart to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, set in the Congo.

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[l] at 11/22/24 7:14am
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a televised speech on Thursday that Ukraine fired US-supplied ATACMS missiles and the UK's Storm Shadows at facilities in the Kursk and Bryansk regions on November 19. Russia responded by launching a combined strike using the new medium-range Oreshnik missile on a defense industry complex of the Kiev regime.

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[l] at 11/22/24 6:06am
BREST, Belarus (Sputnik) - The administration of US President Joe Biden is leaving US President-elect Donald Trump "bad legacy" by allowing Kiev to use long-range missiles, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.

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[l] at 11/22/24 5:58am
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has offered some friendly countries the construction of spaceports on their territory, this is most relevant for countries that lie on the equator, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos head Yury Borisov said on Friday.

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[l] at 11/22/24 5:56am
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia successfully used the Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile for the first time in combat conditions, the goal of the launch at a Ukrainian defense industry facility in Dnepropetrovsk has been successfully achieved, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

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[l] at 11/22/24 5:16am
Organized by the Roscongress Foundation in partnership with the Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE), the event is set to be a significant platform for advancing trade and investment cooperation between Russia and ASEAN countries.
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[l] at 11/22/24 3:58am
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Manned flights to Mars may begin in the next 50 years, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos head Yuri Borisov said on Friday.

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[l] at 11/22/24 3:56am
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia will react if some country launches weapons into space and it has such developments, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos head Yuri Borisov said on Friday.

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[l] at 11/22/24 3:56am
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia's further actions if the West does not take its concerns into account have been outlined, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday, commenting on a statement made by President Vladimir Putin about a brand-new medium-range missile, Oreshnik.

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[l] at 11/22/24 3:50am
Sputnik News Agency and Radio Sputnik have signed a memorandum of cooperation with Qatar's largest media group, Dar Al-Sharq.
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[l] at 11/22/24 3:44am
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian President Vladimir Putin remains open to contacts on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.

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[l] at 11/22/24 3:41am
Previously, a scenario for a hot war between Russia and NATO was imagined in a classified Bundeswehr document cited by Bild in winter. It envisioned an escalation of tensions culminating in potential clashes by the summer of 2025.
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[l] at 11/22/24 2:36am
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is in Brest on November 21-22 to take part in a joint meeting of the Collegiums of the Foreign Ministries of Russia and Belarus.

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[l] at 11/22/24 2:28am
American investor Stephen P. Lynch has expressed an interest in buying the Nord Stream 2 pipeline if it is put up for auction as part of the bankruptcy proceedings in Switzerland, The Wall Street Journal reports.

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