Lviv, Russia and Oreshnik
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Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi has said it is currently unknown whether Russia used an Oreshnik missile in the attack on Lviv Oblast on 8 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.
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,
According to the Air Force, the strike on Lviv was carried out by a ballistic missile. The air target was traveling on a ballistic trajectory at a speed of approximately 13,000 kilometers per hour—an extremely high speed,
On the night of January 9, the Russian army launched a ballistic strike on the Lviv region, the explosions from which could be heard both in Lviv and beyond, writes "Focus". After the air alert went off, video of the moment of the alleged "Oreshnik" strike in the Lviv region began circulating in local telegram channels.
Ukrainska Pravda on MSN
Air Force on explosions in Lviv Oblast: launches likely from Kapustin Yar, site of Oreshnik ballistic missile launch
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.
Daily Express US on MSN
Putin unleashes 'unstoppable' Oreshnik missile just 40 miles from NATO border
Putin launched a nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile near Lviv, just 40 miles from NATO territory, in a deadly escalation as Ukraine cities were bombarded
A Ukrainian drone strike killed one person and wounded three others in the Russian city of Voronezh, local officials said Sunday. A young woman died overnight in a hospital intensive care unit after debris from a drone fell on a house during the attack on Saturday,