11 minutes to Berlin, 14 minutes to Brussels, 19 minutes to London: Russia’s new hypersonic medium range ballistic missile shows what it can do

Tonight’s edition of the news and analysis program Sixty Minutes hosted by Duma member Yevgeny Popov and his wife Olga Skabeyeva was almost entirely devoted to coverage of the country’s latest hypersonic missile “Oreshnik,” (hazelnut tree) which has a range of more than 5,000 km, putting it at the outer limits of Intermediate Range and lower limits of Intercontinental ballistic missiles. The Oreshnik was used yesterday in an unprecedented strike on industrial facilities in the Ukrainian city of Dnepr (Dnipro in Ukrainian), a city of one million inhabitants, fourth largest in Ukraine and the capital of the Dnepropetrovsk oblast.