{"id":100668,"date":"2026-01-13T04:58:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disinfo.md\/russia-announces-the-target-of-the-oreshnik-hypersonic-missile-attack-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T04:58:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T02:58:32","slug":"russia-announces-the-target-of-the-oreshnik-hypersonic-missile-attack-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disinfo.md\/en\/russia-announces-the-target-of-the-oreshnik-hypersonic-missile-attack-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia announces the target of the Oreshnik hypersonic missile attack in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span class=\"cf0\">The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that the &#8220;latest generation&#8221; missile, Ore\u015fnik, used on Friday <\/span><span class=\"cf1\">in massive strikes against Ukraine, targeted an aeronautical factory in the city of Lviv, located <\/span><span class=\"cf2\">in the west of the <\/span><span class=\"cf2\">country.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to information confirmed from several independent sources, as a result of the strike carried out on the night of January 8 to 9 by the Russian armed forces using the &#8216;Ore\u015fnik&#8217; mobile ground ballistic missile system, the state aircraft repair factory in Lviv was put out of service,&#8221; the Russian ministry indicated.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cf1\">According to Moscow,<\/span><span class=\"cf0\"> this factory is used for &#8220;repairing and maintaining the aeronautical material of the Ukrainian armed forces, including MiG-29 <\/span><span class=\"cf0\">and <\/span><span class=\"cf1\">F-16 <\/span><span class=\"cf0\">aircraft,<\/span><span class=\"cf1\"> supplied by Western countries&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\">U<\/span><span class=\"cf1\">ntil Monday, the Russians had not specified the target of the Ore\u015fnik attack<\/span><span class=\"cf0\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\">This <\/span><span class=\"cf3\">hypersonic ballistic missile<\/span><span class=\"cf0\"> is capable of carrying nuclear warheads, but in Friday&#8217;s attack it carried a conventional payload.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cf2\">The use of Ore\u0219nik, for the second time since the beginning of the Russian offensive in Ukraine in 2022, was condemned by the European Union and the governments of Berlin, Paris and London, who denounced an &#8220;escalation&#8221; by Moscow.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf2\">Kyiv does not comment on Moscow&#8217;s statements about the &#8220;aviation factory hit by Ore\u0219nik&#8221;<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"pf0\"><span class=\"cf0\">Asked about the Russians&#8217; statements about the target hit on Friday with Ore\u0219nik, <span class=\"cf2\">Yuri Ignat, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"cf1\">spokesman for the Ukrainian Air Forces, stressed that the authorities in Kyiv never specifically communicate the targets hit as a result of Russian attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cf2\">The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) confirmed on Friday that Russia had hit, overnight, <\/span><span class=\"cf1\">the Lviv region with an Ore\u015fnik missile and presented images with fragments presented as coming from this weapon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"cf2\">The SBU reported that Moscow hit &#8220;civilian infrastructures&#8221; <\/span><span class=\"cf1\">near the border with <\/span><span class=\"cf0\">Ukraine and the <\/span><span class=\"cf1\">EU, without specifying the target and the extent of the damage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that the &#8220;latest generation&#8221; missile, Ore\u015fnik, used on Friday in massive strikes against Ukraine, targeted an aeronautical factory in the city of Lviv, located in the west of the country. &#8220;According to information confirmed from several independent sources, as a result of the strike carried out on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":100633,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1135],"tags":[1204,12350,12852,1146,12851,1203],"class_list":{"0":"post-100668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs-en","8":"tag-atac-en","9":"tag-comment","10":"tag-hypersonic-rocket","11":"tag-rusia-en","12":"tag-walnut","13":"tag-ucraina-en"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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