00:20People captured it on camera, bright streaks cutting through the night sky above Ukraine,
00:26then multiple flashes, sequential explosions lighting the horizon.
00:31What they filmed was one of the rarest and most feared weapons in Russia's entire arsenal hitting the Kyiv region.
00:38Just after 1 a.m. local time, the sky over the Bila Serkva area south of Kyiv lit up.
00:45Footage spreading across social media and news channels shows exactly what happens when an Odishnik arrives.
00:51First, bright objects descending at impossible speed.
00:56Then, the warheads separate mid-air, splitting apart and fanning out.
01:00Then, impact. Not one explosion. Multiple. Sequential.
01:05Each one a separate warhead hitting a separate target in rapid succession.
01:10That's not a regular missile. That's a MERV system doing exactly what it was designed to do.
01:15For anyone seeing that footage and wondering what they're looking at, here's what the Odishnik actually is.
01:21Officially designated, the RS-26 Rubej, an intermediate-range ballistic missile launched from Russia's Kapustinyar test site.
01:31Hypersonic, traveling at Mach 10+, it carries multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles up to six warheads,
01:40each capable of releasing its own sub-munitions on completely separate targets.
01:45Nuclear-capable, used here in a conventional kinetic role.
01:49And here's the thing that makes that footage so chilling.
01:53Those streaks of light you're seeing separate and branch out?
01:56That's not one impact coming. That's six.
01:59Nearly impossible to intercept, by design.
02:03Ukraine's Air Force confirmed it.
02:05Launched from Kapustinyar, targeted the Bila-Serkva area south of the capital.
02:09This is only the third confirmed combat use of the Odishnik in this entire war.
02:14First, Dnipro, November 2024.
02:18Second, Lviv Oblast, January 2026.
02:21Both made global headlines.
02:23Now it's hitting the Kyiv region, the capital's doorstep.
02:27And this wasn't an isolated strike.
02:30It came as part of a massive combined barrage.
02:33Dozens of ballistic and cruise missiles.
02:36Hundreds of drones.
02:37Air raid alerts blanketing the entire country.
02:40Multiple waves.
02:41Residential areas hit.
02:43Infrastructure damaged.
02:44Casualties reported.
02:45But the Odishnik footage is what the world is watching.
02:49There's a reason videos of those descending warheads are spreading so fast.
02:53Most people have never seen anything like it.
02:56Streaks branching across a dark sky.
02:59Multiple flashes detonating in sequence on the ground below.
03:02It looks like something from a movie.
03:04It isn't.
03:05The Odishnik has always been Russia's statement weapon.
03:08Rolled out when Moscow wants the world to feel the weight of what it's capable of.
03:13Last night, Kyiv felt it.
03:38Russia just used one of its most dangerous weapons on the planet.
03:43And aimed it directly at the Kyiv region.
03:46A missile so fast, so powerful, and so difficult to intercept that Ukraine had almost no answer for it.
03:54And last night, Russia may have fired two of them.
03:58Overnight, on May 23rd, into the early hours of Sunday morning, Russia launched one of its most intense attacks on
04:06Ukraine's capital in recent memory.
04:08Dozens of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, Iskandars, and waves of Shahhead drones rained down on Kyiv, hitting every single district
04:18of the city.
04:20Residential buildings damaged.
04:22Fires burning across the skyline.
04:24A school in the city center struck by debris.
04:27At least one person killed.
04:29More than 20 injured.
04:30But what's sending shock waves through military circles isn't the scale of the attack.
04:36It's what Russia used.
04:38Meet the Oreshnik.
04:40It's an intermediate-range ballistic missile.
04:43Nuclear-capable.
04:44Hypersonic.
04:45Traveling at speeds exceeding Mach 10.
04:48That's over 13,000 kilometers per hour.
04:51And it carries MIRVs, multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, meaning a single missile can split into up to six warheads
05:01mid-flight, each releasing its own sub-munitions on separate targets.
05:06It is, by design, nearly impossible to intercept.
05:10Russia has used it only twice before.
05:13November 2024 against the city of Dnipro.
05:17January 2026 against infrastructure in Lviv Oblast.
05:22Both times it made global headlines.
05:25Last night, Russia reportedly fired two and pointed them at the capital region.
05:31If confirmed, that's more Oreshnik strikes in a single night than in the entire previous history of this war.
05:39Here's what makes this even chilling.
05:42Ukraine saw it coming.
05:44President Zelenskyy, backed by Ukrainian, US, and European intelligence, warned the day before that an Oreshnik strike on Kyiv was
05:52imminent.
05:53Air raid sirens were blaring.
05:55Monitoring channels flagged a possible launch.
05:58Explosions were reported just after 1 a.m. local time.
06:02Russia framed this attack as retaliation, following a Ukrainian strike on a college dormitory in Stadobilsk, Luhansk, which Moscow claimed
06:12killed civilian students.
06:13But firing two of your rarest, most powerful non-nuclear missiles at a capital city, that's not just retaliation.
06:21That's a message.
06:23To put this in perspective, in just the past two weeks, Russia launched over 1,500 drones in a single
06:31two-day period against Ukraine.
06:34Ongoing strikes have hammered power grids, ports, and neighborhoods.
06:37The war of attrition is relentless, but the Oreshnik is different.
06:42It's not an attrition weapon, it's a statement weapon.
06:46Russia rolls it out when it wants the world to pay attention.
06:49When it wants Ukraine and the West to feel the ceiling of what's possible.
06:54Last night, that ceiling moved closer to Kyiv than it ever has before.
06:59The casualty figures are still coming in.
07:02The damage is still being assessed.
07:04But one thing is already clear.
07:07Russia just raised the stakes.
07:09Again.
07:29It's bad.
07:30You are ok.
07:32Now you must admit one thing.
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