On the eve of tomorrow’s holiday of the Russian Armed Forces, its President Russia, Vladimir Putinannounced today that his country will continue to strengthen nuclear its arsenal and will begin mass production of hypersonic missiles.

In his speech at the Defender of the Fatherland Day, the Kremlin authority said that this year the first Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile launch systems (known in the West as Satan-2) will be deployed.

At the same time, “we will continue mass production of Kinzhal hypersonic air-to-ground missiles and begin mass production of Zirkon anti-ship hypersonic missiles,” Putin said.

Earlier today, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov assured that Russia’s decision to suspend its participation in the new START nuclear arms control treaty “does not bring us closer to nuclear war.”

^{Source: APE-MEB, Reuters}