Vladimir Putin will deploy hypersonic ‘wonder weapon that can reach 4,000C and hit Britain in just nine minutes’ to Belarus ‘any day now’, stooge Alexander Lukashenko claims

Vladimir Putin is set to deploy Oreshnik hypersonic missiles to Belarus ‘any day now’ according to Belarusian dictator, and Kremlin stooge, Alexander Lukashenko. 

The so-called ‘wonder weapon’ reaches up to 4,000C and could reportedly reach Britain in nine minutes. 

Russia’s ally Belarus will be be supplied with an active Oreshnik system ahead of Putin’s own forces.

The Eastern European nation is geographically closer to Europe and Britain than most of Russia and the weapons will be deployed in in eastern Belarus just 1,345 miles from London. 

While Oreshnik is nuclear-capable, Putin has threatened that it is almost as destructive with a non-nuclear warhead.

Targets would be incinerated, he said, with warheads unleashing a temperature of 4,000C, almost as hot as the surface of the sun.

The Kremlin has previously claimed the missile is impossible to intercept.  

On the day he stood in a rigged election to extend his 30-year rule of Belarus Lukashenko 70, boasted about being supplied with Oreshnik by ‘my elder brother’ Putin, 72.  

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. The Russian ally will be be supplied with an active Oreshnik system ahead of Putin’s own forces

Russian hypersonic missiles being launched in October 2024. The Oreshnik missile reaches up to 4,000C and could reportedly reach Britain in nine minutes. The Kremlin has t has destructive power comparable to that of a nuclear weapon

Russian president Vladimir Putin in June 2024. Lukashenko let slip that Putin is having problems mass producing Oreshnik, unable to rapidly manufacture ten missile systems

However, Lukashenko has also revealed there is a supply problem with Oreshnik which has only been used once last year against Ukraine in Dnipro city, without a live warhead.

This confirms suspicions that Putin has over-hyped the readiness of Oreshnik.

‘Any day now, we’ll have the Oreshnik systems,’ claimed Lukashenko, who called it a weapon with ‘terrible’ consequences.

‘[We will deploy it in Belarus but] closer to [Russian city] Smolensk, that’s my idea,’ said the Minsk dictator.

‘But we’ll see. You need a certain distance.

‘It’s bad when your targets are too close, but also bad if they’re too far.

‘They might not handle the load as well.

‘So I’m thinking somewhere near [Russia].’

Lukashenko greets Putin in Minsk. On the day he stood in a rigged election to extend his 30-year rule of Belarus Lukashenko 70, boasted about being supplied with Oreshnik by ‘my elder brother’ Putin, 72.

Putin has threatened that the weapon is almost as destructive with a non-nuclear warhead

But Lukashenko also let slip that Putin is having problems mass producing Oreshnik, unable to rapidly manufacture ten missile systems.

This ‘will probably not be produced in two, even three years. I understand that,’ admitted Lukashenko, evidently admitting a supply-line embarrassment for Putin.

‘One [Oreshnik] is enough to secure Belarus. But they are also needed in Russia.

‘And we did not stipulate specific deadlines. It is not urgent.’

Russian state media has said that an Oreshnik launch from Belarus – where the ‘unstoppable’ missiles are due to be stationed next year – could hit London in 8.8 minutes.

From its current test launch base in southern Russia, it would take around 20 minutes.

Putin has earlier boasted that he personally played a role in the ‘historic’ development of Oreshnik’.

He said: ‘Oreshnik is not an event of the year, it is a historic event in the rocket and space field.

Maj Gen Christian Freuding (pictured last February) said Russia is ‘successfully rearming’

‘Nothing like this has ever happened before.

‘This is the first time it’s happened with this type of weapon.

‘How deep [was I involved]? Yeah, pretty deep.’

He also revealed a split in his defence ministry over developing super weapon Oreshnik.

‘In the end, I joined those who thought it should be produced and gave direct orders to do so, to allocate the necessary resources,’ he said.

‘And agreed with those who thought it was time to test it under combat conditions.

‘So, well, of course, that’s part of my job.’

The deployment comes after a German General warned that Putin was  ‘creating the conditions’ to attack NATO. 

esidents walk past a building damaged by Russian military strikes in  Donetsk 

Major General Christian Freuding told Die Welt, a German newspaper, that while Putin has suffered huge casualties in the war, losing his ‘well-trained troops’, his ‘imperialist impulse’ remains unbroken and the military is ‘successfully rearming’. 

While it was not clear whether Russia plans to attack NATO, Freuding said Putin was ‘clearly creating the conditions for it’, claiming supplies in Russia’s depots are ‘growing’.

While NATO it ‘does not seek confrontation and poses no threat to Russia’, Putin and his allies have increasingly sent warnings of nuclear Armageddon to the West in a bid to undermine support for Ukraine.

In Belarus, Lukashenko is expected to secure a seventh term as President of the former Soviet republic in today’s Belarusian election. 

The dictator has run Belarus with an iron fist since he first came to power in 1994. 

During the previous election in 2020, the 70-year-old’s grip on power almost came loose after millions of citizens flooded the street calling the vote a sham and demanding the president to resign.

In response to months of protests, Lukashenko arrested 65,000 people and forced opposition figures to flee abroad in exile. 

Russian service members drive a BTR-82A armoured personnel carrier along Red Square during a rehearsal for a military parade on May 5, 2024

The aftermath of a strike in Ukraine using the Oreshnik missile for the first time 

As of writing there has been no repeat of the same unrest seen during the previous election.

The Russian-Ukraine war is entering what some Russian and Western officials say could be its final and most dangerous phase as Moscow’s forces advance at their fastest pace since the early weeks of the conflict.

Both Moscow and Kyiv are attempting to cement their advantage in the war.

Trump has insisted Russia and Ukraine immediately reach a ceasefire and said Ukraine should likely prepare to receive less U.S. military aid.

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