The Pentagon says the Oreshnik is a tweak of Russia’s RS-26 Rubezh missile, an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that has been tested since 2011.

STORY: On Nov. 21 Russia struck Ukraine's Dnipro with a new kind of missile.Known as Oreshnik, or hazel tree in Russia, it caused limited damage, according to senior officials. But the first combat use of such a design – which Russian President Vladimir Putin called unstoppable – has drawn scrutiny from Western military experts.

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

Russian President Vladimir Putin revealed that Russia deployed 90 missiles and 100 drones in a massive aerial assault on Ukraine overnight on Thursday

British intelligence believes that the use of a Russian Oreshnik ballistic missile against Dnipro was likely "strategic messaging" from Moscow in response to Ukraine's use of Western missiles into Russia.

Russia attacks Ukraine yet again, but this time with its new 'Oreshnik' ballistic missiles that is also a warning to the US.

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

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,

On the night from Thursday to Friday, Russia attacked Ukraine using at least 130 drones. The air defence forces destroyed nearly 90 of them. "About 40 drones lost communication as a result of electronic warfare measures,

This statement was made on Nov. 28, according to Russian state news agency TASS. Putin claims that the Oreshnik missile has “no analogs” in the world and that “similar ones will not appear soon.” He once again boasted about some unconfirmed specifications of the Oreshnik,