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.

Russia used a new ballistic missile to attack Dnipro that had multiple warheads, but was without explosives, causing minimal damage, two senior Ukrainian

Russia named the missile the Oreshnik, or hazel tree, and said it is impossible to intercept it with air defenses.

Russian President Vladimir Putin confirmed Podvig’s assertion Thursday afternoon, when he announced the weapon that struck Dnipro was an experimental medium-range ballistic missile called “Oreshnik.” MRBMs typically travel no farther than 600 miles.

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,

This is the first time Russia has used its so-called Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in combat. The launch also serves as a warning to the West.

Russia fired a hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday in response to the U.S. and UK's allowing Kyiv to strike Russian territory with advanced Western weapons,

Russia’s new ballistic missile flies on a high arc out of Earth’s atmosphere and releases multiple high-speed projectiles, making it challenging but not impossible to intercept