Putin’s new hypersonic ‘Oreshnik’ missile may be unstoppable for Ukraine

The strike on the city of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine early Thursday morning (Picture: east2west)‘I thought it was a nuclear attack’. This is what a resident in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro said after Vladimir Putin’s unleashed ‘Oreshnik’, one of the newest intermediate-range missiles in Russia’s arsenal.Initially, the weapon was mistaken for a 3,400-mile intercontinental ballistic missile – which would have been a first in the history of the invasion. At