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Russia to Equip New Nuclear Submarines with Hypersonic Missiles 

Russia's Pacific Fleet submarines parade off the port city of Vladivostok during the Navy Day celebrations on July 30, 2023. (AFP)
Russia's Pacific Fleet submarines parade off the port city of Vladivostok during the Navy Day celebrations on July 30, 2023. (AFP)
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Russia to Equip New Nuclear Submarines with Hypersonic Missiles 

Russia's Pacific Fleet submarines parade off the port city of Vladivostok during the Navy Day celebrations on July 30, 2023. (AFP)
Russia's Pacific Fleet submarines parade off the port city of Vladivostok during the Navy Day celebrations on July 30, 2023. (AFP)

Russia is in the process of equipping its new nuclear submarines with hypersonic Zircon missiles, the head of Russia's largest shipbuilder told the RIA state news agency in an interview published on Monday.

"Multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M project will ... be equipped with the Zircon missile system on a regular basis," Alexei Rakhmanov, chief executive officer of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), told RIA.

"Work in this direction is already underway."

Yasen-class submarines, also known as Project 885M, are nuclear-powered cruise missile submarines, built to replace Soviet-era nuclear attack submarines as part of a program to modernize the army and fleet.

The sea-based Zircon hypersonic missiles have a range of 900 km (560 miles), and can travel at several times the speed of sound, making it difficult to defend against them.

President Vladimir Putin said earlier this year that Russia would start mass supplies of Zircon missiles as part of the country's efforts to boost its nuclear forces.

The Russian multi-purposes frigate Admiral Gorshkov, which has tested its strike capabilities in the western Atlantic Ocean earlier this year, has been already equipped with Zircon missiles.

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Trump Aide Waltz Says US Needs Ukrainian Leader Who Wants Peace

US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 21, 2025. (AFP)
US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 21, 2025. (AFP)
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Trump Aide Waltz Says US Needs Ukrainian Leader Who Wants Peace

US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 21, 2025. (AFP)
US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on February 21, 2025. (AFP)

A top adviser to President Donald Trump said on Sunday that the United States needs a Ukrainian leader who is willing to secure a lasting peace with Russia but that it is not clear Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is prepared to do so.

Days after a contentious Oval Office exchange between Trump, Zelenskiy and Vice President JD Vance, White House National Security Adviser Mike Waltz said Washington wants to secure a permanent peace between Moscow and Kyiv that involves territorial concessions in exchange for European-led security guarantees.

Asked whether Trump wants Zelenskiy to resign, Waltz told CNN's "State of the Union" program: "We need a leader that can deal with us, eventually deal with the Russians and end this war."

"If it becomes apparent that President Zelenskiy's either personal motivations or political motivations are divergent from ending the fighting in his country, then I think we have a real issue on our hands," Waltz added.

House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson also suggested that a different leader might be necessary in Ukraine if Zelenskiy does not comply with US demands.

"Something has to change. Either he needs to come to his senses and come back to the table in gratitude, or someone else needs to lead the country to do that," the top congressional Republican told NBC's Meet the Press program.

The extraordinary Oval Office exchange on Friday put tensions between Zelenskiy and Trump on public display. As a result, an agreement between Ukraine and the United States to jointly develop Ukraine's natural resources was left unsigned and in limbo.

"It wasn't clear to us that President Zelenskiy was ready to negotiate and in good faith towards an end of this war," Waltz said.

On ABC's This Week program, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he has not spoken with Zelenskiy since Friday.

Rubio also said he has not spoken to Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha since Trump and Zelenskiy clashed at the White House and failed to sign an expected minerals deal.

"We'll be ready to reengage when they're ready to make peace," Rubio said on the show.

US Senator Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, said on "This Week" that she was "appalled" by the clash in the Oval Office and that she met with Zelenskiy before he went to the White House on Friday and he had been excited to sign an expected minerals deal.

"There is still an opening here" for a peace deal, she said.