Air Force confirms Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile strike on Ukraine

Radar units detected and tracked 278 aerial threats — including 36 missiles and 242 drones of various types:

• 242 attack UAVs of the Shahed and Gerbera types, about 150 of them of Shahed type

• 13 Iskander-M / S-400 ballistic missiles

• 22 Kalibr cruise missiles

• one medium-range ballistic missile.

As of 9 a.m., Ukraine’s air defense shot down or suppressed 244 aerial targets. The medium-range missile — identified as Oreshnik — was not intercepted.

As earlier explained by Ukrainian and Western experts, Oreshnik (also known as Kedr or Rubezh) is a medium-range ballistic missile.

Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed it used Oreshnik missile in the Jan. 9 mass strike, stating that Russian forces carried out a “massive high-precision long-range strike using land- and sea-based weapons, including the mobile Oreshnik medium-range missile system,” allegedly in response to what Moscow described as a Ukrainian “attack on Putin’s residence.”

On Jan. 9, Russia also struck infrastructure facilities in Lviv Oblast. Ukrainian Air Force communications chief Yurii Ihnat said launches of the Oreshnik missile from Kapustin Yar could not be ruled out.

Ukraine’s Western Air Command later reported that the ballistic missile used in the Lviv Oblast strike was traveling at a speed of about 13,000 kilometers per hour. Its exact type will be determined after detailed analysis of the missile fragments.

Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi confirmed a hit on a critical infrastructure facility and reported partial disruption of gas supplies in the city.