Russian leader, making annual end-of-year address, suggests ‘experiment’ involving his Oreshnik system and US weapons

You can watch Putin’s press conference here:

We have some more comments made by Putin at the press conference. According to Reuters, he suggested a missile “duel” with the US that would show how Russia’s new Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile could defeat any American missile defence system. Putin has used the missile, which has nuclear capabilities, as a way of raising the stakes and threatening the west.