On November 28, 2024, during a session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Astana, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that the new intermediate-range ballistic missile, Oreshnik, has no global equivalents. He emphasized that the missile was tested under combat conditions, citing Western strikes in the Bryansk and Kursk regions as a catalyst for its development.
Putin stated, "We were forced to test it in combat conditions, forced, as I already said, in response to the Western weapons strikes on the territory of the Bryansk and Kursk regions with ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles." He asserted that no similar missiles will emerge in the near future.