Intensifying Russian attacks on civilians and Ukraine's infrastructure, including the use of the Oreshnik missile, have underlined the need to urgently supply Ukraine with air defence systems and interceptor missiles.

Russia's defence ministry said on Monday that the target it hit last week in a strike with a hypersonic Oreshnik missile was a Ukrainian aircraft repair plant, which was disabled.

The Russian Oreshnik ballistic missile that hit the Ukrainian city of Lviv carried no explosives and hit nothing of military value, implying it was meant to coerce rather than inflict major damage.

Russia’s nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system has entered active service, Russia’s Ministry of Defense says, as negotiators continue to search for a breakthrough in peace talks to end Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

That is, the fact of import and deployment of combat missile systems MRBM "Oreshnik", including launchers, on the territory of Belarus has not been documented and actually confirmed. Only the arrival of auxiliary and supporting equipment, not related to the combat means of the complex, has been recorded.

Russia has unveiled its new ‘Predator’ stratospheric unmanned platform, a high-altitude, long-endurance drone capable of near-space missions, satellite-like surveillance and heavy payload operations.

Russia’s Defense Ministry announced it carried out a precision strike last week using its hypersonic Oreshnik missile, claiming the attack disabled a major Ukrainian aviation repair and drone production facility in the Lviv region.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that the Russian Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile system also poses a threat to Warsaw, Bucharest, Budapest and many other capitals.