State Duma deputy Anatoly Wasserman – one of Putin's closest allies and biggest mouthpieces – has claimed that Vladimir Putin has far worse weapons available that the West 'doesn't know about'

The Oreshnik nuclear-capable intermediate-range ballistic missile was likely a modification of Russia's RS-26 Rubezh missile, he said.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin and the Russian military leadership are continuing to laud the Oreshnik ballistic missile launched on 21 November on the city of Dnipro. However, military analysts at the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggest that this is part of an information campaign to inflate Russia's capabilities and put pressure on the West and Ukraine.