Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday said that his country is the only one in the world able to deploy hypersonic weaponry and that other countries will need to "catch up."

Putin told top military officials that "not a single country possesses hypersonic weapons, let alone continental-range hypersonic weapons," according to a transcript released by the Kremlin.

He acknowledged that then Soviet Union was behind the United States in designing the atomic bomb and building strategic bombers and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) during Cold War era, but that time has changed.

"Now, we have a situation that is unique in modern history, when they are trying to catch up to us."

The Russian president made similar claims around this time last year, where he announced that a new hypersonic missile system would come into place in 2019, something that is yet to happen.

But one thing is clear, Moscow does not and will not be afraid of the sanctions coming from Washington.

Despite the ratcheting up pressure from Washington on Russia's Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, the European nations seem to open their arms to the world's largest country when it comes to energy security. 

The U.S. believes the Russia-led project is a danger to European security and thus introduced sanctions against it.

"We are sure that we will solve this problem and reach compromise in cooperation with European countries, with the European Union," Russian Vice Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak told Rossiya 24 Channel. "The pressure is likely to grow, but the capacities of this pressure are not unlimited, taking into consideration the position of key EU member states that are interested in having the necessary level of energy security."

According to Kozak, the gas coming from Russia may see a drop in prices of 30 percent for Europe than America's liquefied natural gas.