Russia has dubbed the missile the Oreshnik (Hazel Tree) and said it is impossible to intercept it with air defences. Ukraine has said the weapon reached a top speed of more than 13,000 kph (8,000 mph) on its way towards Dnipro on Thursday. Intermediate-range ballistic missiles have a range of up to 5,500 kilometres.

Ukrainian investigators were on Sunday studying the debris of a new Russian intermediate-range ballistic missile that was fired at the city of Dnipro on Thursday, the first time such a powerful weapon has been used in the war.

KYIV, Nov 22 (Reuters) - The Russian missile that struck the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday reached a top speed of more than 13,000 kph (8,000 mph) and took about 15 minutes to reach its target from its launch, Ukraine said on Friday in its first public assessment of the new weapon.

Tit-for-tat moves this week included the use of American-made ballistic missiles to strike inside Russia, and new nuclear threats from Moscow. Neither appear to have influenced the war on the ground.

Ukrainian forces hit a radar station of an S-400 anti-aircraft missile system in Russia's Kursk Oblast on the night of 23-24 November. Source: Ukraine's General Staff Details: The General Staff reported that Ukrainian troops had struck the positions of an anti-aircraft missile division from the 1490th Guards Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment of the 6th Army of the Russian Federation in Kursk Oblast.

Russian forces launched drones across Ukraine overnight on November 24 for another air attack. The enemy kamikaze drones entered Ukraine’s airspace from the northern direction, according to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the air alert map.