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The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed that an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) was used in a group strike that targeted drone production facilities, energy infrastructure and other military-related facilities inside Ukraine over the night of January 8 and 9.
The strike was carried out in response to an attempted “terrorist attack by the Kiev regime” on the residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin in Novgorod Region, the ministry said in a statement.
“The Russian Armed Forces launched a massive strike with high-precision long-range ground- and sea-based weapons including the Oreshnik mobile ground-based medium-range missile system as well as attack unmanned aerial vehicles at critically important facilities on the territory of Ukraine,” the statement reads. “All the assigned targets have been hit. Production facilities of unmanned aerial vehicles that were used during the terrorist attack as well as power infrastructure enterprises that supported the defence industry of Ukraine have been damaged.”
The ministry went on to warn that “any terrorist actions by the criminal Ukrainian regime will not remain unanswered in the future.”
The existence of the Oreshnik [hazel shrub] first became known on November 21 of 2024 when Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a televised address, announced its first combat use against a military facility, Pivdenmash, near the city of Dnipro in the southeastern Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk.
Last August, Putin announced that the Oreshnik had entered production and service. Around the same time reports of plans to deploy the system in Belarus also began to emerge. This was confirmed later in December by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko himself.
What sets Oreshnik apart from other IRBMs is its high speed, which reportedly exceeds Mach 10, in addition to its payload, which consists of multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles – previously exclusively used by nuclear weapons – equipped with six warheads, each reportedly containing submunitions.
The Oreshnik is widely described as a hypersonic missile, as its reentry vehicles have the ability to maneuver at a speed over Mach 5 at low altitudes in the atmosphere.
Videos purported to show the latest Oreshnik first emerged from the western Ukrainian region of Lviv late on January 8, with Mayor Andrey Sadovoy announcing early on the next day that “a piece of critical infrastructure” had been struck in the region.
Numerous projectiles coming down from the skies in rapid succession are seen in the videos, which is characteristic of the system.
Russian Telegram channels suggested that the Oreshnik hit an underground gas facility in the city of Striy, about 60 kilometers south of Lviv capital.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy admitted that Ukraine was hit by an Oreshnik missile, calling for a “clear reaction from the world.”
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian Air Force said in a statement that the overnight group strike included, in addition to the hypersonic IRBM, at least 242 attack drones of various types and 36 missiles, including 13 Iskander-M tactical ballistic missiles and 22 Kalibr land-attack cruise missiles.
The air force also alleged that the Oreshnik was launched from the Kapustin Yar test site in Russia’s Astrakhan region, which is located more than 1,500 kilometers away from Lviv.
Despite claiming that most of the drones and missiles were intercepted, the air forces admitted that 19 sites across the country were hit.
The overnight strike was clearly a warning to Ukraine. Instead of Lviv, the Oreshnik could have hit multiple decision-making centers in Kiev simultaneously. This shows that Russia is still serious about the peace process. Moscow could, however, act in an even more decisive manner if Kiev opts to escalate again.
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ruzzia trying to distract everyone from their losing battles.
moron inferior americunt 🥱
have any of you noticed how many comment(s) are being erased on s-f on this particular post?… i placed a comment here about how awesome the comment(s) are on this attack if you are interested. because even though tyler of zh sold out -the comment section rocks on with the truth!…
too many weirdos posting ridiculous comments here and on zerohedge. i guess they need that for entertainment. i agree that zerohedge sold out with left vs. right posts to keep us divided and distracted from focusing on the real enemies of the people.
there’s just one ramses with a dozen identities.
because they run the internet. and msm
the strike is just a light poke by russia. a hint to the eu, zionist and american imperialists who seek hegemony over all peoples and global assets. the globalist cult still attempts irrational, ignorant and reckless actions according to its leaderships desires.
then they have get their navigation one ocean wrong.
and they’ll continue with their ‘reckless’ actions as long as they think they’re untouchable, and out of harm’s way.
an oreshnik on that city of london slavers rat’s nest would upend that. exit putin and the ‘siloviki’ crowd, enter the russians !
no there’s just one the one who any normal moderator would delete for being offensive. it’s just him with different names.
they really need to assign the username to one e mail address (fake or real) here on sf.
i know this “anonymous” australian kike faggot posts as bob, “allegedly” and a number of other usernames. you can spot his retarded harping on the pope and the windsors from a mile away, normally deflecting from the neo feudal banking elite.
i have been frequenting unz much more since the comment section here is so ridiculous
two downvotes b4 i ticked you. that’s probably the number of inbreds who are in continual action on this site’s commentary.
sarcasm is the lowest fotm of wit .
they delete any normal.comments but always post the anerucunt anuz joo hate speech faithfully .along with the ridiculously naive ignorant nonsense
agree. monkeys should get banned from the site. why not ban ip and locations from the entitys performing genocide, and instigating mass murder in the hospitals ?
they’re totally biased in favour of anti american democracy, anti israel, although that’s becayse they don’t understand charles is the king of isreal, aka they don’t have a clue really and don’t even know it.
the site facilitates zio trolling though with their bot garbage included.
stupid you talking to yourself obviously with your obviously fake votes.
fake fake fake
deadshit dipstick dumbarse
name a few of the battles russia is losing?
siria,armenia, iran, venezuela ecc.
siria= russian forces have bases, same in armenia, iran is under control of the ayatollah, venezuela continue ruling by chavistas
russia can’t buy the same kind of “allies” that the usd printing (((americans))) can pay off.
stupid nonsense they’re all proxies for the globalists to maximise profits from war.
yes. else newtons laws should be known in russia, and also the root causes. as soon they have any contact with the fake jews, they are pleasure killers.
keep up i guess it’s too hard when you arent awake. go and look at the news for once and your fake 9 so called votes. everyone except morons knows the ayatollahs out and have done for the last 3xmonths at least but not you “11” dipsticks. just unbelievable anyone could be do behind.
i wonder if its the norwegian child killers which do the voting here, and they are so afraid of get their democracy questioned, that they automatically erase any reply ?
the one to defeat ukraine obviously .
kill yourself
ramses again .
americunt win many battles in transgender trailer park
1 the first trams was a german tennis player . because the nazis were responsible for the research which was outsourced to them from engjand as rome’s proxy. allegedly
england started it all way back, (anti christian activity that is ,originally anti vatican empire). by having only men as actors .in that time cross dressing was equal to witchcraft by the vatican and punishable by burning 🔥
but england did it publicly on stage people went to theatre then like they buy fast food now. . and they were heavily intoxicated most of the time then too .it was normal.
for normal people, its obvious that christianity are anti-christ, but not for catholics, they are so found of burning people alive. the explanation for this are in the book “the da vinci code”. are you another parrot, or maybe a tape-recorder ?
lol!!! like where asshole?
bend over take a look .
are you here again, idiotic parrot.
are you here again, idiotic parrot. the norwegian child killers plan to use such idiots as you, for to speed up the killing. your circuits should get ripped out, hal.
who suk godeon lick peniz chatjizz all have ramses disease
you really are an assett to.sf in displaying exactly their values.
yes he’s the shop front for sf s values.
this explains why inferior americunt anonymous comments here
per prendere kiev leopoli colpire ferrovie sistema elettrico e gas acqua la città si svuota da sola e si prende così pure chernihv sumy ecc.
if this this is so destructive why do they not show any satellite before and after images? i do not recall seeing any satellite before and after images from the first time it was used.
in a nutshell: satellite images of strong hazelnut would be bad for western narrative “weak russia”. so nothing to see here. please, please disperse! there’s nothing – to – see!
the mainstream fake news sources have not shown any reputable information from the first oreshnik strike. they will not show it now. reality is an obvious embarrassment
like newtons laws. they are hated as the plauge in “us”. it looks like russia are not sure if they works in north america also.
its very strange, that two comments that in principle agree with each other, have completely different “voting”. either, its the effect of stupid “american” monkeys, or its the norwegian child killers which handle the “voting”. this technology are pure evil.
credo che i russi cominciano a capire che con oreshnik più aerei su 34 e su 35 crediamo che possono ancora vincere. questo è l’augurio ma non crediamo che continueranno, vogliono che trump occupi la russia.
aí vai um oreshik para uma armada nas caraíbas… capicci, rubio? be wise, you have a wonderful problem
hahahahaha.
oreshnik is completely nuts! there is no countermeasure, and it is penetrating deep into the ground. no bunker is safe from this missile.
putin cannot risk retaliation from nato if he goes overboard to end the war by violent means they will justify him being a war criminal. that’s the end then of him. he s on a tight rope and he knows it idiots brainless deadshits who respond like children don’t.
all gpt inferior americunts humiliated by 🇷🇺 victory—so as inferior bullies we try steal oil from venezueala🤣
liar liar pants on fire. 🤑🤮🥶
good to see that the strike was successful and ruined the gas hub the (((americans))) were counting on using.
if trump backed ukraine militarily russia would have been defeated now but you have no idea whars going on anyway.
well kiev has got the message,russia needs to send it to london.
mi6 headquarters. knock knock, “did someone order a pizza?” bam! bam! bam..!
london gives kiev the message
that’s what cromwell is saying russia needs to missile london.. because he’s english obviously.
mothers in “us” should order stronger medicine against washington 👺 where i live, some pills onto stockholm should decrease the pension stealing.
time to hit moscow with a nuke…heheheh
that would ruin all the fun.
russian nazis monkeys from moscow rhe 2 neurons nazi gang
ukraine is kaput
it shows that russia knows it can’t win ..
it shows them china is no ally ,that it has no real allies that it’s been entrapped in s set up .allegedly
obviously why putins telling russians to get busy and have families now asap. but they take 18 years to grow into soldiers. and nato and its allies, especially india, has millions already.
ussa companies assets have been blown up in ukraine. europe is bankrupt. russia is self sufficient with china and india behind it.
exactly because they haven’t the population to sustain a long campaign everyone knows it. except idiots obviously. they can’t replace 18 to 35 year old fast enough to keep losing them over the next 100 years that king charles has contracted with ukraine to support them for
the morons on this site are just plain stupid stupid as.
as more ukrainans killed, as more russian ships stolen. i wonder if that can be because of a misunderstanding of the root causes location ? “us” are really happy as more slavs get killed, and should russia anhilate europe, they should sing of joy. the finance of adolf hitler rothschild finally succeed, with his new accolyte, adolf putin.
oops…there goes europe’s biggest gas storage. next, oreshnik to sbu building, ministry of ukraine defense
yes, adolf trump, and adolf putin work in tandem, trump pisses him off, and putin kills some more slavs 😂 sorry, but i dont understand the logic in that. there was strong suspicion about agreement between the parts in wwi, this look worse.
no, his name is trumpstein. trum the zionist.
trumpy dumpy the first ever jewish president. and it shows
agreement with trump? trump could not negotiate his way out of a condom. but does putin understand that yet?
looks like something out of a sci-fi movie, like the starship enterprise shooting photon torpedoes at the klingons.