Russia’s claim that it has fired a new Oreshnik hypersonic missile in combat, and tested a nuclear-capable variant, marks a sharp escalation in the technological arms race unfolding along NATO’s eastern flank.

On the night of January 9, an aircraft repair plant in Lviv was disabled with the help of the Oreshnik missile system. This was announced on January 12 by the Russian Defense Ministry.The news is bein

Shortly after Ukraine’s Air Force reported the threat of an intermediate-range ballistic missile launch from a Russian strategic nuclear testing site near the Caspian Sea, explosions rocked the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Friday morning,

The Security Service of Ukraine has located the wreckage of a russian ballistic missile that the occupiers fired at the Lviv Region on the night of January

In Lviv, a series of loud explosions was heard during the night of January 8–9. Online reports claimed a strike by the Oreshnik system, but this information has not been officially confirmed. Everything known about the situation in Lviv is detailed in the RBC-Ukraine report below.

Russia may have launched a strike on Lviv Oblast from the Kapustin Yar testing range in Russia's Astrakhan Oblast, where, according to early reports, the Oreshnik missile system is based.