🇷🇺❌🇺🇦 — Last night, Russian Federation Strategic Forces conducted a strike using a Oreshnik Intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) attack against a critical infrastructure object against the outskirts of Lviv/Lvov region

➡️ It only the second time that Moscow has used the Oreshnik, which was first deployed to hit the central city of Dnipro in November 2024.

📝 Russia's defence ministry said the strike was a response to a Ukrainian drone attack on Vladimir Putin's residence in late December, which Kyiv denies carrying out.

➡️ While the ministry did not specify what had been the Oreshnik's target, shortly before midnight (22:00 GMT) videos began circulating on social media showing numerous explosions on the outskirts of the western city of Lviv.

➡️ Ukrainian authorities confirmed that a ballistic missile had struck infrastructure in Lviv, about 60km (40 miles) from the Polish border.

📝 The Oreshnik is an intermediate-range, hypersonic ballistic missile, meaning it can potentially reach up to 5,500km (3,417 miles). It is thought to have a warhead that deliberately fragments during its final descent into several, independently targeted inert projectiles, causing distinctive repeated explosions moments apart.

After the impact, the skies over Lviv were seen glowing following the Oreshnik strike.

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