On October 26, General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said that the country had tested a new cruise missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and using nuclear energy, named Burevestnik.
According to Gerasimov, the test, which took place from October 21, showed that the Burevestnik missile is capable of operating in the air for about 15 consecutive hours, with a distance of 14,000km.
The General added that this information had also been reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
On the same day, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that President Putin had visited a military command post to attend a high-level meeting where he met with General Gerasimov and senior military leaders.
Everyone has reported in detail to the Commander-in-Chief on the situation along the front line, Peskov said.
According to a source familiar with the matter, at a meeting with senior military generals on October 26, President Putin appeared in military uniform, emphasizing that Burevestnik's important experiments had been completed.
The Russian leader also asked the military to urgently begin the final stage to prepare to deploy the missile.
Previously, President Putin described the Burevestnik missile, with the code 9M730 (Nato's name: SSC-X-9 Skyfall), as an "invincible" weapon with all current and future missile defense systems, thanks to its almost unlimited range and unpredictable flight trajectory.
