Rusia ha declarado que emple\u00f3 por segunda vez el misil bal\u00edstico\u00a0Oreshnik en el ataque a gran escala con cientos de misiles y drones del 09Ene26 sobre Kiev y otros objetivos en Ucrania. El presidente Putin ha afirmado que este nuevo misil hipers\u00f3nico es inmune a cualquier sistema de defensa antimisiles. Varios de ellos, utilizados en un ataque convencional, podr\u00edan ser tan devastadores como un ataque nuclear, seg\u00fan Putin, quien ha advertido a Occidente que Rusia podr\u00eda utilizar el Oreshnik pr\u00f3ximamente contra aliados de Kiev que le permitan atacar dentro de Rusia con sus misiles de mayor alcance.<\/p>\n
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) \u2014 Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack, officials said Friday, killing at least four people. For only the second time, it used a new ballistic missile that it says flies at 10 times the speed of sound and is unstoppable.<\/p>\n
The intense barrage and the launching of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile came days after Ukraine and its allies reported major progress toward agreeing on how to defend the country from further Moscow aggression if a peace deal is struck to end Russia\u2019s almost 4-year-old invasion.<\/p>\n
Months of U.S.-led peace efforts have failed to stop the fighting, however. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has made significant progress on the terms of a possible peace settlement in talks with Washington envoys. But Moscow has given no public signal it is willing to budge from its demands.<\/p>\n
The attack comes amid a new chill in relations between Moscow and Washington after Russia condemned the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker in the North Atlantic. It also comes as U.S. President Donald Trump has signaled he is on board with a hard-hitting sanctions package meant to economically cripple Moscow.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian officials said four people were killed and at least 22 wounded in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, during the overnight attack as apartment buildings were struck.<\/p>\n
Those killed included an emergency medical aid worker, according to Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko. Five rescue workers sustained injuries while responding to the ongoing attacks, Ukraine\u2019s security service said.<\/p>\n
The attack damaged the Qatari Embassy in Kyiv, Zelenskyy said Friday. He noted that Qatar has played a key role in mediating the exchange of prisoners of war.<\/p>\n
He called for a \u201cclear response\u201d from the international community, particularly from the United States, which he said Russia takes seriously.<\/p>\n
Moscow says attack was retaliation<\/strong><\/p>\n Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry said the attack was a retaliation to what Moscow said was a Ukrainian drone strike on Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s residence last month. Both Ukraine and U.S. President Donald Trump have rejected the Russian claim of the attack on Putin\u2019s residence.<\/p>\n Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously said that the Oreshnik streaks to its target at Mach 10, \u201clike a meteorite,\u201d and has claimed it is immune to any missile defense system. Several of them used in a conventional strike could be as devastating as a nuclear attack, according to Putin, who has warned the West that Russia could use the Oreshnik next against allies of Kyiv that allow it to strike inside Russia with their longer-range missiles.<\/p>\n Ukrainian intelligence says the missile has six warheads, each carrying six submunitions.<\/p>\n Russia didn\u2019t say where Oreshnik hit, but Russian media and military bloggers said it targeted a huge underground natural gas storage facility in Ukraine\u2019s western Lviv region. Foreign military aid for Ukraine is believed to pass through that region, which borders Poland.<\/p>\n Russia first used the Oreshnik missile on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in November 2024. Analysts say it affords Russia a new element of psychological warfare, unnerving Ukrainians and scaring Western countries that supply weaponry to Ukraine.<\/p>\n Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Ukraine would be initiating international action in response to the use of the missile, including an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council and a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council.<\/p>\n \u201cSuch a strike close to EU and NATO border is a grave threat to the security on the European continent and a test for the transatlantic community. We demand strong responses to Russia\u2019s reckless actions,\u201d he said in a post on X.<\/p>\n Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi said that Russia struck critical infrastructure with a ballistic missile, but didn\u2019t give details. He said the missile traveled at a speed of 13,000 kilometers (more than 8,000 miles) per hour \u2014 which would be around Mach 10 \u2014 and that the specific type of rocket was being investigated.<\/p>\n Attacks hit Kyiv apartment blocks<\/strong><\/p>\n In Kyiv, several districts were hit in the attack, said Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko. In the Desnyanskyi district a drone crashed onto the roof of a multi-story building. At another address in the same district the first two floors of a residential building were damaged.<\/p>\n In Dnipro district, parts of a drone damaged a multistory building and a fire broke out.<\/p>\n Dmytro Karpenko\u2019s windows were shattered in the attack on Kyiv. When he saw that his neighbor\u2019s house was on fire, he rushed out to help him.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat Russia is doing, of course, shows that they do not want peace. But people really want peace, people are suffering, people are dying,\u201d the 45-year old said.<\/p>\n Running water and electricity were disrupted in parts of the capital as a result of the attack, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.<\/p>\n The attack took place just hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy alerted the nation about Russia\u2019s intentions for a large-scale offensive. He said that Russia aimed to take advantage of the frigid weather in the capital that has made roads and streets perilously icy.<\/p>\n