Russia said it carried out an attack with a medium-range ballistic missile from the Oreshnik system against a suburb of Lviv, in western Ukraine, on the night of January 8.
The Ukrainian Air Force confirmed the launch and reported that the projectile traveled a ballistic trajectory at approximately 13,000 km/h, hitting infrastructure targets shortly before midnight.
According to Ukrainian authorities, images posted on social media indicate that the missile may have been launched without a warhead, resulting in a purely kinetic impact.
Even so, the shock wave activated security systems, temporarily cutting off gas supplies to 376 homes in the village of Rudno in the Lviv region. Technicians were sent to check the equipment and normalize the service.
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Oreshnik had already been used by Russia in November 2024, in an attack near Dnipro. However, Ukrainian intelligence claims that the system was destroyed in July of the same year in a joint operation in Kapustin Yar, raising doubts about the real current operational capacity of this type of missile in the Russian arsenal.
Source: Militarnyi | Photo: X @mog_russEN | This content was created with the help of AI and reviewed by the editorial team
Another footage of the “Oreshnik” intermediate-range ballistic missile strike on Lviv. pic.twitter.com/jhYTopOule
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) January 8, 2026
🚨⚡ Ladies and gentlemen, meet the Oreshnik — Russia’s hypersonic answer to Western arrogance.
Six warheads. Blinding speed. Impossible to intercept.
pic.twitter.com/U66VZLrcN0— RussiaNews 🇷🇺 (@mog_russEN) September 14, 2025
