US EditionRussia’s Next-Gen Oreshnik IRBM Relies on Cold War Tech, CNN Investigation Finds
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The medium-range hypersonic missile, which Russia launched this week on Lviv, 80 kilometres from the Polish border, is capable of transporting and launching up to six explosive charges against different targets.
Russia’s Oreshnik missile strike near EU border seen as signal to the West, spurring UN Security Council push and EU calls for air defenses and tougher sanctions
Against the backdrop of Russia’s Oreshnik missile strike, President Volodymyr Zelensky called for a clear global response. “First and foremost from the United States, whose position Russia does take into account. Russia must receive signals that it is obliged to focus on diplomacy, and feel consequences every time it again focuses on killing and destroying infrastructure,” the Ukrainian leader said. He also said the Russian Oreshnik ballistic mi…
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The Russian strike with an Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile on an object in the Lviv region, near the border with Poland, was political and demonstrative.
Russia’s Next-Gen Oreshnik IRBM Relies on Cold War Tech, CNN Investigation Finds
Russian ballistic missile components retrieved from a 2024 strike in Dnipro show that the weapon, known as “Oreshnik” (or “Kedr”), relies on outdated technology, including Soviet-era vacuum tubes and mechanical gyroscopes. This is according to a video investigation published by CNN on January 11, 2026, based on an analysis conducted by Ukraine’s Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Examinations. In the CNN report, Ukrainian weapons spe…
They used a hypersonic missile with warheads for the first time, hitting a target just 70 kilometers from the border with Poland, a NATO member.
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