The aircraft repair plant Ukrainian city of Lviv was one of the objectives of Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile attack last week, the Russian Defense Ministry reported this Monday.
“According to information confirmed by several independent sources, the Lviv aircraft repair plant was disabled as a result of an attack by the Russian Armed Forces with the Oreshnik missile system on the night of January 9,” says the military statement on Telegram.
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Defense adds that Ukrainian aircraft, including F-16 and MiG-29, supplied by Western countries, received maintenance services at the attacked plant.
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These facilities also manufactured medium and long-range drones, which were used to “attack civilian targets” in Russian territory.
Russia launched a massive attack against kyiv on Friday, while bombing the city of Lviv with an Oreshnik for the first time, in retaliation for the alleged Ukrainian attack at the end of 2025 against one of the residences of the Russian president. Vladimir Putinsomething that kyiv has denied.
The city’s mayor, Andrí Sadovi, noted that, according to the Air Force, the missile was traveling at a speed of approximately 13,000 kilometers per hour.
This photograph shows a residential building severely damaged following Russian drone and missile attacks in kyiv in the early hours of January 9, 2026, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: Serhii Okunev / AFP
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“This is the first case of use of this type of attack against Lviv since the start of the large-scale war. The city is located less than 70 kilometers from the border with the European Union (EU). This is a clear signal to our international partners: Russia’s war does not stop at any border,” he stressed.
Meanwhile, the Internal Security Service (SBU) showed photographs of the remains of the hypersonic ballistic missile located in the Lviv region and described the attack with this weapon against civilian infrastructure as a “war crime.”
Moscow first used the Oreshnik in December 2024 against a weapons plant in the eastern Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk.
