Russia reaffirms military power with Poseidon and Burevestnik systems Security council chief states

Those who doubted Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 2018 statements about the Burevestnik and Poseidon systems will now have to believe them, Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu said, stressing that all attempts to defeat Russia are doomed to fail.

Speaking at the opening of the inaugural International Festival of Peoples of Russia and the CIS, he noted that if someone claims these weapons suddenly appeared as new developments and considers them a surprise, there is no surprise here.

“Vladimir Vladimirovich spoke about it from a high platform during his 2018 address to the Federal Assembly. It’s another matter that some may not have believed him then, but now they will have to believe,” Shoigu said.

He also stressed that any attempt to defeat Russia by military force is doomed to fail.

“Russia’s history demonstrates that our enemies, with stubborn persistence, have repeatedly sought to divide us in order to exploit and manipulate us for their own selfish gains,” he said.

Shoigu added that such efforts have never succeeded and never will, noting that all attempts to defeat Russia by military force have failed because behind the army stood the brotherhood of its peoples.

He further warned that globalist forces are now actively spreading a culture of excessive consumerism, individualism, and moral decay. 

Rather than striving for balance and spiritual growth, people influenced by such ideas, he said, lose their sense of humanity and become easy to control—weakening societies and turning once-unified nations into divided territories or dependent colonies.

In late October 2025, Russia announced two major weapons tests within the span of a week, underscoring its push to demonstrate advanced strategic capabilities.

On October 29, President Vladimir Putin confirmed the successful testing of the nuclear-powered underwater drone Poseidon, stating that its nuclear propulsion system had been activated and that the weapon was effectively impossible to intercept.

Earlier, on October 21, Moscow claimed to have carried out a long-range flight test of the Burevestnik (9M730) nuclear-powered cruise missile, which reportedly travelled about 14,000 kilometres over 15 hours. 

Both announcements were widely interpreted as part of the Kremlin’s broader effort to project military strength and reinforce its deterrence narrative amid continued tensions with the West and the conflict in Ukraine.

The two systems—Poseidon and Burevestnik—are often grouped together in Russia’s portfolio of “super-weapons,” first unveiled by Putin in 2018 and designed to bypass Western missile-defence networks.

By Jeyhun Aghazada