Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in Minsk on 28 October that “everyone has somehow kept quiet” after Russia’s test of the Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile.
“Through diplomatic channels, I have not heard of any feedback. Somehow everyone has kept quiet,” the Russian foreign minister said at a press conference following a plenary session of the Minsk International Conference on Eurasian Security (quoted by Russia’s official TASS news agency).
On 27 October, United States President Donald Trump commented on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statements about the Burevestnik missile test. “They know we have a nuclear submarine, the biggest in the world, right off their shore,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One during a trip to Asia.
Trump said the US also “tests missiles all the time” and does not need a range of 8,000 miles (Moscow announced that the missile “flew about 14,000 kilometres” during the test). The American leader also expressed doubt that it was “appropriate” for the Russian president to make such statements.
On 26 October, Putin visited one of the control points of the Joint Grouping of Forces, where he was briefed on the results of combat operations and tests of modern weapons.
Before that, Russian Chief of the General Staff Valery Gerasimov said that a test of a nuclear-powered cruise missile called Burevestnik was conducted on 21 October.