A study of the wreckage of the Oreshnik ballistic missile, which the aggressor country's army used to strike the city of Dnipro on November 21, 2024, has shown that it is nothing more than a modernization of the old RS-26 Rubezh intermediate-range ballistic missile.
The Economist reported this, citing experts from the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise.
On the day the Oreshnik was used, the city of Dnipro was also hit by other types of missiles in service with the russian army. After the shelling, wreckage was found at the hit sites, some of which belonged to the invaders' "new" ballistic missile.
The markings found on one of the missile wreckage showed that this element was manufactured in 2017. And a fragment of one of the warheads inside the missile dates back to 2016.
The publication writes that this confirms suspicions that the Oreshnik is by no means a miracle of russian technology, as russian dictator vladimir putin positions it, but is merely a modernization of the older Rubezh intermediate-range ballistic missile.
The Economist also suggested that the Oreshnik missile is not a serious threat, and its use was a show of force aimed at a Western audience.
As the Ukrainian News agency earlier reported, a few days after the strike on Dnipro, the Security Service of Ukraine demonstrated the fragments of the Oreshnik missile.
As we will recall, Reuters wrote, citing unnamed Ukrainian officials, that the Oreshnik missile, with which the russians struck Dnipro, was equipped with mock-ups of warheads.
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