Putin: 3I/ATLAS is our secret weapon, but it does not pose a threat to the Earth

The 3I/ATLAS object is a comet that came from another galaxy, so it behaves unusually, but it does not pose any threat to the Earth, since it is too far away from it. And if necessary, you can "send her to Jupiter," joked Russian President Vladimir Putin during a live line.

"This is our secret weapon, but we will use it only as a last resort," Putin joked.

He added that Russia is against the deployment of weapons in space.

"The moon is 400 thousand km away from us, and the object you are talking about is hundreds of millions of kilometers away. I don't think he poses any threat to us," the Russian leader stressed. — Let's send him to Jupiter! And by the beginning of next year, the comet will have left the Solar System."