The Pentagon says the Oreshnik is a tweak of Russia’s RS-26 Rubezh missile, an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that has been tested since 2011.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) showed journalists the remains of a Russian ballistic missile called Oreshnik that hit the city of Dnipro on Thursday. Source: AP Quote: "The charred, mangled wires and the missile body about the size of a large tyre are all that remains of the weapon,

Ukraine on Sunday showed journalists fragments of the Russian missile used to strike the city of Dnipro last week, after Moscow said it had tested its new Oreshnik ballistic missile.Russia on Thursday carried out a strike on the city which President Vladimir Putin said was a test of its new Oreshnik hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM).

Hours after the strike, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a TV address, said that Russia had launched a "new conventional intermediate-range" missile with the codename Oreshnik, meaning hazel tree in Russian.

The Security Service of Ukraine showed journalists the wreckage of a new experimental ballistic missile, the Oreshnik. Russia used it to attack a plant in Dnipro, reports Associated Press. The fragments of the missile,