#Oreshnik missile

Moscow claims it has placed its new Oreshnik ballistic missile system on combat duty in Belarus, but the only hardware Russia was willing to show looked more like support vehicles than a nuclear-capable strike weapon.

The UK is urgently moving to fill what officials describe as a dangerous gap in its ability to strike distant targets from the ground, launching a new wave of long-range missile programs with NATO partners to counter Russia’s expanding capability to hit Europe from thousands of miles away.

Having already breached global treaties by moving nuclear arms to Belarus, Russia is now signaling plans to deploy powerful ballistic missiles to Venezuela that can reach the US.