MOSCOW The recent launch of Russia's Oreshnik missile towards Ukraine sends a strong message to the West, underscoring Russia's determination to defend its interests, military expert Viktor Litovkin said on Friday. Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on Thursday that in response to the US and its NATO allies’ authorization of the use of their long-range high-precision weapons for strikes inside Russia, Moscow delivered a strike on a war plant in Ukraine’s city of Dnipro with the Oreshnik,