The Ukrainian army believes that Russia used an intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time in history. Vladimir Putin claimed a new experimental medium-range missile, Oreshnik, was used there.

The rockets that hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipro did not cause explosions or destruction on the ground, according to an analyst from the German daily "Bild." Julian Röpke suggests it was a "propaganda and political action,

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.