INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Ukraine on Sunday showed reporters pieces of the Russian rocket used to strike the city of Dnipro recently, after Moscow said it had checked
its new Oreshnik ballistic missile.Russia on Thursday performed a strike on the city which President Vladimir Putin said was a test of its
new Oreshnik hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM)
Ukraines SBU security service showed metal pieces, ranging from bulky to small, on phony yard in front of camouflage netting at a concealed
place Sunday, AFP reporters saw.The SBU did not call the rocket used however stated it was a type they had actually not seen before.Oleg,
one of its private investigators, informed journalists that this is the very first time the debris of such a missile has actually been
discovered on the area of Ukraine
This product had not been documented by security detectives in the past, he added.Oleg stated that investigators are analyzing the pieces
and will later provide answers on the characteristics of the missile.He stated that the missile was ballistic and had triggered damage to
civilian and other facilities in Dnipro.In a televised address Thursday, Putin said Russia used the IRBM in reaction to Ukraines firing
United States ATACMS and U.K
Storm Shadow rockets into Russian area, after the Kyiv allies lifted a restriction on it using long-range weaponry to fire into Russia.Putin
stated the missile flies at 10 times the speed of noise and can not be obstructed by air defenses.The president said it struck a defense
market production center in Dnipro which still produces rocket equipment and other weapons.A Russian foreign ministry spokesperson was
heard answering a phone call about a strike on Yuzhmash during a press briefing
Yuzhmash is the Russian name of an aerospace producer in Dnipro now called Pivdenmash.Neither Kyiv nor Moscow has confirmed whether this was
the target.Putin has guaranteed more battle screening of the Oreshnik missile and said it will enter into serial production.Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky has called the strike the latest bout of Russian madness and appealed for updated air-defense systems to
fulfill the brand-new threat.The head of Ukraines military intelligence has stated Kyiv understood a number of prototypes of the rocket had
been produced before it was fired.
