Oreshnik ballistic missile strikes Kyiv

Zelenskyy: Our intelligence services receiving data from American and European partners, about Russia preparing a strike with the Oreshnik missile. We are seeing signs of preparation for a combined strike on Ukrainian territory, including Kyiv, involving various types of weaponry.

⚠️ Reports are emerging that Russia have launched an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile toward Bila Tserkva in Kyiv Oblast. Footage circulating online shows the impact of high-velocity kinetic submunitions consistent with the Oreshnik’s design.

⚡️Explosions heard as Kyiv comes under massive ballistic missile attack.

Russia launched another large overnight air attack on Ukraine, with at least 4 Tu-95MS bombers taking off from Olenya, Kinzhal launches reported, ballistic missiles fired toward Kyiv from Bryansk, and waves of Shahed drones moving across multiple regions. #Ukraine

BREAKING: Russian forces appear to have struck Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, with an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile. Seen here, Oreshnik submunitions rain down on Kyiv.

🇺🇦 Attention to our Followers currently in Ukraine: Unusual activity has been detected at strategic aviation command posts. The Russian Federation is preparing strategic bombers of the Tu-95MS / Tu-160 type for potential takeoff.

Since Ukraine began to increase attacks on Russian oil refineries, Russia has been looking for an excuse to carry out an indiscriminate missile strike on central Kyiv - even before Putin’s little Red Square parade, - so the warning of a potential Oreshnik strike is not surprising.

Russia reportedly used the Oreshnik ballistic missile on Bila Tserkva in Kyiv Oblast The Oreshnik releases up to 6 independent hypersonic warheads and cannot be intercepted. Zelenskyy warned of exactly this strike less than 24 hours ago euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/24/b...

The Ukrainian air force reported an active “threat” from a likely inbound Oreshnik intermediate range ballistic missile. It was not immediately clear whether one had been used in Russia’s latest attack early Sunday.

More and more of ballistic missiles are targeting Kyiv tonight. Ordinary russians are doing this to us. It is not just putin alone who is launching them. #Ukraine #UkrainianView

🚨 A barrage of loud explosions in Kyiv as another massive russian attack is taking place. There are a group of explosions, then silence for a few minutes, then a group of new explosions again. The use of ballistic missiles has already been confirmed.

not now gunshots i'm trying to watch the ballistic missile situation

Powerful explosions in Kyiv. Ballistic missiles flew in from Bryansk. So far it's not possible to say if they were intercepted or not.

3/ Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Russia is preparing a combined strike against Kyiv City that could include Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs).

Russia has struck Kyiv with an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM). The large-scale combined missile and drone attack is still ongoing. Russia uses the Oreshnik more as a political tool of terror and intimidation than for practical military application.