Seriously? Could?

 So, Michael Maloof thinks that it could. OK. 

Neither Ukraine nor its Western backers have any means to counter Russia’s newly deployed intermediate-range Oreshnik missile, Michael Maloof, a former senior Pentagon security analyst, told RT in an interview on Friday. Maloof noted that the Oreshnik could “easily shift the balance of power overwhelmingly in favor” of Russia in any conflict, including the ongoing hostilities with Ukraine. “Having a hypersonic [missile] for which there’s no defense currently… is astonishing. It absolutely alters that balance of power dramatically, for which the Ukrainians have no defense,” he said. He noted that while the US is working to adapt missile defense systems such as THAAD to counter hypersonic threats, these programs remain under development. “There’s no operational ability at this point to deal with a hypersonic missile,” Maloof said, adding that the Oreshnik could reach its targets within mere minutes.

Granted, the title is a production of headless morons from RT, Maloof's statement is a bit more assertive. But in related news, neither 404 not its backers have any means to counter:

1. Kinzhal hypersonic aeroballistic missile;

2. 3M22 Zircon hypersonic missile;

3. Iskander (quasi)ballistic missile;

4. Combined salvo of X-101 and P-800 Onyx ...

And the list goes on, and on, and on. The shift of balance of power had happened after March 1st, 2018 at Vladimir Putin's Address to Federal Assembly. It is a fait accompli. Oreshnik, which is now in serial production and first serial complex has been already deployed into the first line unit is just another nail into the coffin of always exaggerated West's "supremacy". What comes next after Oreshnik, and it is coming, we can only guess.