{"id":36066,"date":"2026-05-13T23:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/medvedev-makes-a-joke-the-west-has-come-closer-after-the-successful-test-of-the-russian-missile\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T23:05:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T21:05:38","slug":"medvedev-makes-a-joke-the-west-has-come-closer-after-the-successful-test-of-the-russian-missile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/medvedev-makes-a-joke-the-west-has-come-closer-after-the-successful-test-of-the-russian-missile\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev makes a &#8220;joke&#8221;: the West has come closer after the successful test of the Russian missile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/thumbs_b_c_fca6ee2090cd8de8b985bf2d8a3b792d.jpg\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;margin-bottom:20px\"><\/p>\n<p>Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday sarcastically congratulated Western countries after the successful test of Russia&#8217;s Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, reports Anadolu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I congratulate all of Russia&#8217;s Western &#8216;friends&#8217; on the successful test of the Sarmat strategic missile system. Now you all have become closer to us!&#8221; Medvedev said in a post on the Russian social media platform. Max.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev, who currently serves as deputy chairman of Russia&#8217;s Security Council, made the comments after Strategic Missile Forces commander Sergey Karakayev informed Russian President Vladimir Putin of the missile&#8217;s successful launch earlier Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the most powerful missile in the world,&#8221; Russian President Vladimir Putin said in televised remarks, claiming its warhead yield was more than four times that of greater than Western equivalents.<\/p>\n<p>Putin said the Sarmat missile has a range of more than 35,000 kilometers and claimed it can &#8220;penetrate all existing and future anti-missile defense systems&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Karakayev said the Russian Armed Forces plan to deploy the first regiment equipped with the Sarmat missile system to combat duty by the end of 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Putin first announced the testing of the &#8220;Sarmat&#8221; missile system in 2018.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"margin:30px 0\">\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666\">Source: <strong>prizrenpost<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday sarcastically congratulated Western countries after the successful test of Russia&#8217;s Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, reports Anadolu. &#8220;I congratulate all of Russia&#8217;s Western &#8216;friends&#8217; on the successful test of the Sarmat strategic missile system. Now you all have become closer to us!&#8221; Medvedev said in a post on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[666],"class_list":["post-36066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-brief"],"views":33,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36068,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36066\/revisions\/36068"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}