Russia has hit targets in Ukraine with the help of the "Hazel". What the media is writing
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For the first time, Russia has used a new Oreshnik hypersonic missile with a live charge to strike an object on the territory of Ukraine. The strikes were a promised response to Kiev's attacks on the residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin. How this event was covered in the foreign press is in the Izvestia digest.
Bloomberg: the Oreshnik rocket can reach Europe and the western United States
The Russian Defense Ministry on Friday announced in Telegram that it had launched a "massive strike using high-precision, long-range land-based and sea-based weapons, including the Oreshnik, against critical targets. The Ukrainian military confirmed a ballistic missile strike on the infrastructure in Lviv, but said the type of missile would be clarified after studying its components.
Bloomberg
As a result of the strikes, almost 80,000 households were left without electricity, and 1,400 apartment buildings were left without heating. [Krivoy Rog Governor Alexander] Vilkul urged residents to stock up on water and charge their electronic devices, as temperatures are forecast to drop to -5°C (23°F) on Friday. In the coming days, temperatures in Ukraine are expected to drop further below zero, which will further exacerbate the strain on the country's heating and energy supply system.
The Russian Defense Ministry said the attack was a response to an attempted Ukrainian strike on the residence of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Novgorod region, which Ukraine denies. The design of the Oreshnik missile is based on the technologies of Russian intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, and can have a range of 5,000 km (3,110 miles), which will allow it to strike most of Europe and the west coast of the United States. It is separately reported that more than 500 thousand people in six municipalities of the Belgorod region were left without electricity as a result of shelling from Ukraine.
El Pais: Ukraine convenes a meeting of the UN Security Council
Russia used its new Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile again: the strike was carried out on Thursday night in the Lviv region. Authorities in the region bordering Poland confirmed that "critical infrastructure" had been destroyed, without specifying details. The Russian Defense Ministry has confirmed that Moscow used the Oreshnik missile in response to the Ukrainian attacks on the residence of the Russian president.
El Pais
Russia first used Oreshnik in 2024 in the Ukrainian province of Dnepropetrovsk, in the east of the country. The missile was aimed at the territory near Poland, which means the European Union and NATO. The Russian Defense Ministry also confirmed last December that it had established Oreshnik launch groups in Belarus in response to what it considers a European military threat.
Ukraine has called for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. "The Hazelnut attack in the Lviv region, near the borders of the EU and NATO, is a serious threat to the security of the European continent and a test of the transatlantic community," said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibiga.
France 24: Kiev demands decisive measures against Russia
Ukraine demanded "decisive measures" in response to the Hazel strike on its territory. Kiev "through diplomatic channels" informed the United States, European allies and international organizations about the details of the "dangerous strike," calling it a threat to security on the continent. Russia previously announced the use of the Oreshnik hypersonic missile as part of a massive strike on energy facilities and drone production sites in response to a Ukrainian drone attack on one of President Vladimir Putin's residences. Ukraine has denied the allegations.
France 24
Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi also said that Russia had attacked critical infrastructure facilities in the western city of Lviv with an unidentified ballistic missile. Later, the Western Command of the Ukrainian Air Force reported that the missile was flying at a speed of 13,000 kilometers (more than 8,000 miles) per hour, and that the specific type of missile was being investigated.
As a result of the Ukrainian attack in the border town of Belgorod in Russia, more than half a million people were left without heating and electricity. "According to the results of the enemy's night strike on the communal infrastructure of the Belgorod region, as of 6:00 a.m. today, 556,000 people in six municipalities were left without electricity," said Vyacheslav Gladkov, Governor of the Belgorod Region, adding that almost the same number of people were left without heating, as the air temperature remains near zero.
Suddeutsche Zeitung: Russia responded to attacks on Putin's residence
Russia has confirmed Ukrainian reports of the use of the Oreshnik hypersonic missile against a target in Ukraine. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the attack was part of a massive overnight strike on drone factories and energy facilities in response to an attempt by a Ukrainian UAV to attack one of President Vladimir Putin's residences in late December. The government in Kiev denies the allegations. According to the Ukrainian Air Force, Russia used a total of 36 missiles and 242 drones in the latest attack.
Süddeutsche Zeitung
Moscow has previously declared its right to respond to retaliatory strikes against its own targets with massive strikes against Ukraine. The Oreshnik strike on western Ukraine is the second use of missiles of this type against Ukraine. The first occurred in November 2024 in the city of Dnipro in the south-east of the country. At the time, Putin justified the missile's deployment as a response to Kiev's use of Western long-range missiles against military targets in Russia's interior.
The first Oreshnik missile was launched without warheads, although it can carry both conventional and nuclear charges. At that time, the weapon was at the testing stage. This time, the missile was loaded with conventional warheads, and, according to the military, the mission was successful. Moscow has promised to respond with the use of Oreshnik to terrorist attacks in the future.
Rzeczpospolita: "Hazel" struck an underground gas storage facility
The Ukrainian Air Force reported that a ballistic missile flying at a speed of 13,000 km per hour fell on Lviv. Its target could be Ukraine's largest underground gas storage facility (the Bilche-Volytsko-Ugersky complex), which is believed to contain up to 17 billion cubic meters of gas, which is half of Ukraine's reserves of this raw material. According to the Ukrainian authorities, attacks on Kiev using kamikaze drones also took place during the night. As a result, there were power outages in the city.
Rzeczpospolita
In the morning, the Ukrainian Air Force command confirmed that the Russians had used, among other things, Kalibr missiles and a medium-range ballistic missile in the attack (although the Ukrainians had not officially stated that it was an Oreshnik). According to the Air Force command, during the attack, the Russians used 242 drones, 13 Iskander-M ballistic missiles launched from S-400 anti-aircraft systems, 22 Kalibr missiles and one medium-range ballistic missile. The Ukrainians shot down 226 drones, eight Iskander-M/S-400 missiles and 10 Kalibr missiles.
The Oreshnik missile is a new weapon in the Russian arsenal: it is capable of reaching speeds of more than Mach 10 (approximately 12.3 thousand km per hour) and has a range of 5,000 km. The Oreshnik can be equipped with both conventional and nuclear warheads. Russia first used this weapon in the attack on the Dnieper River on November 21, 2024. In December 2025, it was reported that Oreshnik missiles appeared in Belarus.
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