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Yep. Russia is being pushed to the point where they will have to start using Oreshnik soon. And they are just about ready, since mass manufacturing of Oreshnik has already started.
And the Burevestnik nuclear engine equipped cruise missile is just about ready to go into mass production... can stay in the air for many days without refueling; can fly at 300 feet or less; low altitude makes it virtually untrackable.
With a military ally like China, if the war has to really start with NATO and Europe, Europe is finished. Moscow considers that WW3 has already literally started. When Russia moves, nothing will stop her except wholesale destruction of the West.

Again your obsession with the Oreshnik. Again, this is an ICBM that cannot carry conventional load, it costs 18 million a pop and is technology from the 60´s and offeres ZERO effectivity in a conventional war.
If Ruzzia thought it would be convenient to use, it would have already been used.
That's why Russia is mass manufacturing Oreshnik.
In a lot of areas and towns along the front, before Russia attacked an area, they dropped a bunch of paper fliers warning citizens that they were going to attack an area.
Russia should drop fliers all over Ukraine, and then give the people two months to move to Germany or Poland or Belarus or some other country or even Russia. Anybody who wanted to stay in Ukraine by choice, would have to put up with what would follow.
Then Russia should simply use Oreshnik to wipe out all the cities and towns of Ukraine and let it be done.
Of course, all this seismic activity might launch the 'Dead Hand' nukes at the US, but it was the fault of the US in the first place.
With Ukraine wiped clean, Russia can help rebuild her and invite the people back.
