Kyiv —Russia fired a hypersonic Oreshnik missile at a target in western Ukraine overnight Thursday, near the border with NATO member Poland, in what has been labeled a brazen “warning” to the wider continent and the United States. While Russia did not confirm the target of the Oreshnik missile fire, the country’s Ministry of Defense noted a “massive strike with high-precision long-range land and sea-based weapons, including the Oreshnik mobile medium-range ground-based missile system,” in a statement on Friday. The Ukrainian security service identified parts of the nuclear-capable hypersonic Oreshnik missile system that Russia launched on the western Lviv region overnight. The three leaders agreed that “Russia’s ongoing attacks in Ukraine, including of the use of an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile in Western Ukraine this morning, were escalatory and unacceptable,” according to a Downing Street statement. Serhii Okunev/AFP/Getty ImagesMoscow has depleted Ukrainian energy systems in recent weeks, against the backdrop of a biting winter freeze and failed diplomatic efforts to end the nearly four-year full-scale invasion.

Source: Egypt Independent January 11, 2026 14:51 UTC