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02:27That's over 13,000 kilometers per hour, and it carries MIRVs, multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, meaning a single
02:37missile can split into up to six warheads mid-flight, each releasing its own submunitions on separate targets.
02:45It is, by design, nearly impossible to intercept.
02:50Russia has used it only twice before.
02:53November 2024 against the city of Dnipro.
02:56January 2026 against infrastructure in Lviv Oblast.
03:01Both times, it made global headlines.
03:05Last night, Russia reportedly fired two and pointed them at the capital region.
03:11If confirmed, that's more Oreshnik strikes in a single night than in the entire previous history of this war.
03:18Here's what makes this even chilling.
03:21Ukraine saw it coming.
03:23President Zelensky, backed by Ukrainian, U.S., and European intelligence, warned the day before that an Oreshnik strike on Kyiv
03:32was imminent.
03:33Air raid sirens were blaring.
03:35Monitoring channels flagged a possible launch.
03:38Explosions were reported just after 1 a.m. local time.
03:41Russia framed this attack as retaliation, following a Ukrainian strike on a college dormitory in Stadobilsk, Luhansk, which Moscow claimed
03:51killed civilian students.
03:53But firing two of your rarest, most powerful non-nuclear missiles at a capital city, that's not just retaliation.
04:01That's a message.
04:02To put this in perspective, in just the past two weeks, Russia launched over 1,500 drones in a single
04:10two-day period against Ukraine.
04:13Ongoing strikes have hammered power grids, ports, and neighborhoods.
04:17The war of attrition is relentless.
04:19But the Oreshnik is different.
04:21It's not an attrition weapon.
04:23It's a statement weapon.
04:25Russia rolls it out when it wants the world to pay attention.
04:28When it wants Ukraine and the West to feel the ceiling of what's possible.
04:34Last night, that ceiling moved closer to Kyiv than it ever has before.
04:39The casualty figures are still coming in.
04:42The damage is still being assessed.
04:43But one thing is already clear.
04:46Russia just raised the stakes.
04:49Again.
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