US intelligence warns Russia may soon use Oreshnik again - AP

A U.S. official said this on Wednesday, Ukrinform reports, referring to AP.

“According to the official, Russia has only a handful of the Oreshnik missiles and that they carry a smaller warhead than other missiles that Russia has regularly launched at Ukraine,” the report says.

However, no details on possible dates or potential targets have been provided.

The Pentagon said the Oreshnik was an experimental type of intermediate-range ballistic missile, or IRBM, based on Russia’s RS-26 Rubezh intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM. Intermediate-range missiles can fly between 500 to 5,500 kilometers. Such weapons were banned under a Soviet-era treaty that Washington and Moscow abandoned in 2019.

As reported, Russia first used an intermediate-range ballistic missile on November 21. Then the Russians struck the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.