LIVE – War in Ukraine: kyiv announces that it has debris from the Russian Orechnik ballistic missile

This weapon was unknown until then. The Ukrainian secret service (SBU) on Sunday showed a small group of journalists the fragments of a new Russian ballistic missile, which according to the Russian president struck an arms factory in Dnipro on Thursday.

A few hours after this shot, presented by the Kremlin as a “signal“to the West and to kyiv, Vladimir Putin boasted of the success of the Russian strike with a new hypersonic missile, which he had named Orechnik. The Russian army fired this experimental missile in “answer“, according to Moscow, to the recent Ukrainian attacks carried out against Russia with American and British missiles.

On Sunday, the Ukrainian SBU showed some media, including AFP, metal debris, more or less large, lined up on a fake grass, coming from a Russian missile fired Thursday, he said, against the city of Dnipro, where Orechnik struck, according to Moscow, the factory of the Ukrainian group PivdenMach, which notably produces components for missiles.

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The meeting with the SBU took place in a secret location for security reasons.

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