Yuri Lapaiev
On the night of January 8–9, the Russian army launched a strike on a critical infrastructure facility in Ukraine’s Lviv oblast. The target was located around 70 kilometers (43.5 miles) away from the Polish border (Radio Svoboda, January 9). Later, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) was able to locate and identify fragments of the missile used in the attack.
According to preliminary investigation data, it was an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM), Oreshnik, which Russia had already used once to strike Ukraine in 2024 (see EDM, November 21, 2024; SBU, January 9). The Russian Ministry of Defense officially confirmed the strike, stating that the Russian Armed Forces had launched the Oreshnik medium-range mobile ground missile system against critical targets in Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense emphasized that this was a response to the alleged “terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime on the President of the Russian Federation [Vladimir Putin’s] residence in Novgorod oblast, carried out on the night of December 29, 2025” (Telegram/@mod_russia, January 9).
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