Ukraine's Heart for Strategic Communication and Info Safety on Feb. 7 refuted media studies of Russia's alleged failed launch of its new intermediate-range ballistic missile, the Oreshnik, at Ukraine.

The assertion got here after Forbes, citing Ukrainian soldier and blogger Kyrylo Sazonov, wrote that the Russia has launched one other Oreshnik missile on Feb. 6 "apparently focusing on Kyiv." Sazonov claimed that the missile "didn't fly far" and exploded in Russia.

"The article within the U.S. media relies solely on Sazonov's assumptions, not on precise information," the assertion, printed by the middle that operates below Ukraine's Tradition and Info Ministry, learn.

Neither Ukraine nor Russia has formally reported the launch of Oreshnik.

Russia launched the Oreshnik towards Ukraine as soon as following Kyiv's first profitable use of U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles on a navy goal in Russia final November. Moscow later acknowledged further ATACMS strikes on targets in Kursk and Bryansk oblasts.

The missile, launched at Dnipro, was described by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a response to Ukraine’s use of American and British weapons to strike deeper into Russia.

Whereas Putin has introduced plans for mass manufacturing of the Oreshnik, a U.S. official informed The Kyiv Impartial that Russia seemingly possesses solely a small variety of these experimental missiles.

Commander-in-Chief Oleksandr Syrskyi mentioned that only some air protection methods can repel the Oreshnik, and Ukraine doesn’t but possess these capabilities.

‘Don’t overreact’ — Oreshnik missile isn’t as new as Russia claims, experts sayRussian President Vladimir Putin on Nov. 21 announced his country had launched a new type of missile in an attack on Ukraine, a demonstration of military might meant to deter Kyiv’s allies from further support against his full-scale invasion. “There are currently no ways of countering this weapon.…The Kyiv IndependentChris York