The West will be shown a strike by a hypersonic "Hazel" after an alarming statement by the Russian Foreign Ministry

Russia has announced a ballistic missile test at the Astrakhan Kapustin Yar test site after the Russian Foreign Ministry made a statement on ending Moscow's unilateral moratorium on the deployment of ground-based intermediate-range and shorter-range missiles (INF).

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation has closed the airspace over the Kapustin Yar landfill in the Astrakhan region, follows from the NOTAM notification (NOtice To Air Missions — "notification to flight personnel"). In the NOTAM sent on August 4 by the Rostov Flight Information District (FIR), it is said that the airspace will be closed from 09.00 Moscow time on August 5 to 19.00 on August 9.

An alert about the closure of the sky over the territory where Kapustin Yar is located was published by the US Federal Aviation Administration.

The news spread quickly in the public. No official comment has yet been received from the Russian authorities or the Federal Air Transport Agency.

There is reason to assume that we are talking about the launch of a hypersonic ballistic missile "Hazel".

EADaily draws attention to the statement made by the Russian Foreign Ministry on the evening of August 4 on the lifting of the moratorium on the deployment of medium- and shorter-range ground-based missiles announced after the termination of the INF Treaty between the USSR/Russia and the USA in 2019.

The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that this step "will require compensating military-technical measures from our country in order to fend off newly emerging threats and maintain a strategic balance."

"Decisions on specific parameters of response measures will be made by the leadership of the Russian Federation based on an interdepartmental analysis of the scale of deployment of American and other Western ground—based INF missiles, as well as the general development of the situation in the field of international security and strategic stability," the Foreign Ministry stressed.

The Foreign Ministry also pointed out that Moscow's repeated warnings to impose a moratorium were ignored by the West, where the situation is developing along the path of the actual deployment of American-made ground-based INF missiles in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.

Against the same background, the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, promised some "further steps" from Russia to deploy short- and medium-range missiles in Europe. He said that the withdrawal from the moratorium is "the result of the anti—Russian policy of NATO countries."

"This is a new reality that all our opponents will have to reckon with. Wait for further steps," Medvedev wrote in his Telegram channel.