The reduction in intervals between strikes by Russian troops with the Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) may indicate an increase in its production in Russia. The Ukrainian military portal Defense Express writes about this.
On the night of May 24, the Russian army used Oreshnik in a “kinetic” version (without a nuclear warhead) to strike Ukraine. President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky said that the White Church was under his attack.
This is the third IRBM attack on Ukraine since the start of the full-scale invasion. On November 21, 2024, the occupiers struck the Dnieper with Oreshnik, and on January 8, 2026, on Lviv.
Defense Express points out that while between the first and second attack there was a significant period of time of a year and about a month and a half, then between the second and third it was four and a half months.
“This may indicate that the Russian Federation has increased the production of this MRBM,” the portal writes.
According to data announced last year, it was planned to produce six Oreshnik IRBMs in the Russian Federation this year, the media writes. As of last year, a total of three of them were produced, one of which was used to strike Ukraine, and another was destroyed at the Kapustin Yar training ground by the forces of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the MOU, SBU and SZR.
Defense Express also indicated that, probably, the Russian Federation could well have planned to strike the Oreshnik specifically at Bila Tserkva, and not at Kyiv, choosing, for example, an airfield as a target. However, according to the CyberBoroshno OSINT channel, the missile hit a garage cooperative in Bila Tserkva. The OVA also reported that a garage cooperative was damaged as a result of the attack.
The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that they allegedly attacked Ukrainian military airfields, defense industry enterprises and “fuel and transport infrastructure facilities,” writes BBC News Russian Service.
