What we know about the Oreshnik missilepublished at 17:18 Greenwich Mean Time 22 November
Robert Greenall
BBC News
A Yars-M ICBM. Some analysts say the missile used on Dnipro could be a scaled down version of this
On Thursday Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a few details about the new powerful missile which hit Dnipro earlier in the day – calling it Oreshnik, or hazel tree.
He said it travelled at a speed of Mach 10, in other words 10 times the speed of sound, and that there were “no ways of counteracting this weapon”.
But beyond Putin’s explanation, there appears to be no clear consensus about what it actually is.
Ukrainian military intelligence insists it was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) known as Kedr (cedar). One Russian military analyst told Izvestiya newspaper it could be a scaled down version of this.
US officials, though, say the launch of such a…
