Trump Unfazed by Russia’s Missile Launch

Russia’s test of an “invincible” nuclear-powered cruise missile with a potentially “unlimited range” has drawn a less-than-impressed response from US President Donald Trump as a new cold front has opened between the countries.

Russia announced on Sunday that it had successfully test-fired a new nuclear-powered cruise missile, the 9M730 Burevestnik (or ‘Storm Petrel’) on Tuesday last week.

It boasted that the missile could carry conventional or nuclear warheads. and code-named ‘Skyfall’ by NATOIt can change direction mid-flight and move vertically and horizontally, meaning it can avoid missile and air defense systems.

President Trump, Who is doing a whirlwind tour of Asia and is He will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on ThursdayUnfazed by the missile launch, he told reporters on Monday that Putin should instead focus on ending the war in Ukraine.

“I don’t think it’s right for Putin to say, either: You should end the war, the war that took a week is now … in its fourth year, instead of testing missiles, that’s what you should do,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Monday.

He condemned the use of the Russian missile, saying that with nuclear submarines near Russia’s coast, the US did not need such a long-range weapon.

“They know we have a nuclear submarine, the largest in the world, off their coast, so I mean she doesn’t have to go 8,000 miles,” Trump said. audio file Published by the White House.

“They don’t play games with us and we don’t play games with them,” Trump added. “We test missiles all the time.”

The Kremlin responded on Monday that “Russia is constantly working to ensure its own security. The development of new weapons systems, including the aforementioned (Burevestnik) system, is in line with this objective,” Putin’s press spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. In comments reported by Russian state media agency TASS.

“Russia must do everything possible to guarantee its own security,” Peskov added.

The timing of the trial does not appear to have been coincidental, taking place on the same day that Russia was humiliated and sidelined. Trump canceled the upcoming talks With Russian President Vladimir Putin in Hungary.

Eager to flex his military muscles, and perhaps a warning to Trump Joe is considering whether to give Ukraine long-range Tomahawk missiles Moscow announced on Sunday that it had successfully test-fired its Burevestnik missile, capable of hitting targets deep inside Russia.

During the test, the missile traveled 14,000 kilometers (or 8,700 miles). It was in the air for about 15 hours and was “not the limit,” Valery Gerasimov, chief of the General Staff of Russia’s armed forces, said in comments to Putin on Sunday. TASS reported.

The Kremlin said in a statement on Sunday that Putin praised the test when he visited the command post of forces fighting in Ukraine, where he was briefed on the situation on the frontline.

In comments translated by AP, Putin told military officials that such missiles are “unique products, unparalleled anywhere in the world.”

Russia says such missiles are part of its nuclear deterrent, with Putin saying on Sunday that the country’s “nuclear deterrent is at the highest level. It is no exaggeration to say that it is at least higher than all nuclear states.” However, Russia will now work to put such weapons “on combat alert,” he added.

The Kremlin warned that any attack inside Russia would be met with a “coercive” response on the same day as Russia’s apparent show of strength.

Relations between Washington and Moscow took a turn for the worse last week after the White House announced a planned meeting between Putin and Trump. will be postponed indefinitely As the White House leader put it, he “doesn’t want to have a wasted meeting.”

Trump added that the in-person summit was canceled because “every time I talk to Vladimir, I have a good conversation and then they don’t go anywhere.”

This announcement was met A stony silence from the Kremlin Senior Russian officials blamed Western media and “fake news” for the abortive talks, which were previously hailed by Russian state media as a coup for Moscow as it battles Ukraine for Trump’s ear and support.