The Pentagon says the Oreshnik is a tweak of Russia’s RS-26 Rubezh missile, an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that has been tested since 2011.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) showed journalists the remains of a Russian ballistic missile called Oreshnik that hit the city of Dnipro on Thursday. Source: AP Quote: "The charred, mangled wires and the missile body about the size of a large tyre are all that remains of the weapon,

Hours after the strike, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a TV address, said that Russia had launched a "new conventional intermediate-range" missile with the codename Oreshnik, meaning hazel tree in Russian.