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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rich Booth

Russia has used Putin’s Oreshnik missile for the first time. Why now?

Firefighters work at the site of a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Dnipro - (via REUTERS)

Putin said the missile was called the “Oreshnik” — Russian for “hazelnut tree.”

The surveillance camera video of the Russian missile attack in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro was brief but chilling: Six huge fireballs pierced the darkness and slammed into the ground at astonishing speed.

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