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The Russian subject said connected Friday (January 9, 2026) that it had fired its hypersonic Oreshnik rocket at a people successful Ukraine arsenic portion of what it said was a massive overnight onslaught connected vigor facilities and drone manufacturing sites there.
The Defence Ministry said successful a connection that the onslaught was a effect to an attempted Ukrainian drone onslaught connected 1 of President Vladimir Putin's residences astatine the extremity of December.
Kyiv has called the Russian assertion that it tried to onslaught the residence, successful Russia's Novgorod's region, "a lie."
The Governor of Ukraine's occidental Lviv portion had earlier said that a Russian attack had struck an infrastructure target, which unverified societal media reports said was a monolithic underground state retention facility.
Reuters could not verify that.
Ukrainian media had quoted the Ukrainian Air Force as saying that a ballistic rocket had been utilized successful the onslaught which had been travelling astatine a velocity of astir 13,000 km per hr (8,000 mph).
Moscow archetypal fired an Oreshnik — Russian for hazel histrion — against what it said was a subject mill successful Ukraine successful November 2024. On that juncture Ukrainian sources said the rocket was carrying dummy warheads, not explosives, and caused constricted damage.
Mr. Putin has said that the intermediate-range Oreshnik rocket is intolerable to intercept due to the fact that of speeds reportedly much than 10 times the velocity of dependable and that its destructive power is comparable to that of a atomic weapon, even erstwhile fitted with a accepted warhead.
Some Western officials person expressed scepticism astir the Oreshnik's capabilities. One U.S. authoritative said successful December 2024 that the limb was not seen arsenic a game-changer connected the battlefield.
