The Russian leader’s use of the missile against Ukraine sends a powerful signal about his intention to weaken NATO and bend Europe’s security architecture to Russia’s will.

Russia's attack on Ukraine that used an "experimental" intermediate-range ballistic missile dubbed Oreshnik was messaging, not mass destruction.Why it matters: The Nov. 21 salvo underscored how little recourse Moscow has to Western aid — like Army Tactical Missile Systems — once deemed red lines.

Russia’s new ballistic missile flies on a high arc out of Earth’s atmosphere and releases multiple high-speed projectiles, making it challenging but not impossible to intercept

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.

Russian President Vladimir Putin defended Russia's use of Oreshnik intermediate range missile and claiming that NATO has no way to intercept it.

On Nov. 21, Russia launched its first intermediate-range ballistic missile, codenamed Oreshnik, at Dnipro, traveling just over 800 kilometers toward its target, according to British intelligence. The missile has a maximum range of 3,

The missile Russia used to hit Dnipro is a variant of the RS-26 ballistic missile. Putin has several more of these missiles, the UK Ministry of Defense informs. According to the report, on November 21,