On Thursday, Russia dealt a blow to the city. Yes, according to President Vladimir Putin, the new Oreshnik hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) was tested.
Ukraine’s security service SBU displayed metal fragments on artificial grass in front of a camouflage net in an undisclosed location on Sunday, AFP reporters reported.
The SBU did not name the missile used, but said it was a missile that had not been seen before.
Oleh, one of its researchers, told reporters that “this is the first time such a missile wreckage has been found on the territory of Ukraine.”
“This object has not been captured by security researchers before,” he added.
Oleh said investigators are examining the fragments and will later “provide answers” about the missile’s characteristics.
He said the missile was ballistic and caused damage to civilians and “other infrastructure” in Dnipro.
Scanpix/AP photo/Russia hit Ukraine with a new type of ballistic missile
In a televised address on Thursday, Putin said Russia used the IRBM in response to Ukraine’s shelling of Russian territory with US ATACMS missiles and UK Storm Shadow missiles after Kyiv’s allies lifted a ban on the use of long-range weapons against Russian territory. .
Putin said that the missile travels at 10 times the speed of sound and cannot be intercepted by air defense.
The president said a defense industry plant in Dnipro “which still produces missile equipment and other weapons” was hit.
A representative of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was recorded answering a phone call about the Yuzhmash strike during a press conference. This is the Russian name of an aerospace company located in Dnipro, which is now called Pivdenmaš.
Neither Kyiv nor Moscow confirmed whether it was a target.
Putin promised more combat tests of the Oresnik missile and said it would begin mass production.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the strike “Russia’s latest madness” and called for new air defense systems to counter the new threat.
The head of Ukraine’s military intelligence said that Kyiv knew that several prototypes of the missile had been made before it was launched.
Source: www.15min.lt
