Russia plans to produce five or more Oreshnik missiles a year – Ukraine's foreign intelligence
Russia has no more than three or four Oreshnik missiles but has planned to launch large-scale production and manufacture five or more a year.
Source: Oleh Luhovskyi, First Deputy Head of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Ukraine (FISU), in an interview with Ukrinform, a Ukrainian news agency
Quote: "By our estimates, Russia has no more than three or four such missiles [Oreshnik – ed.].
We know that Russia's Defence Ministry plans in 2026 to put Oreshnik into large-scale production and to gain the capacity to manufacture five or more such missiles a year."
Details: Luhovskyi said that Oreshnik has "more political than military content".
Quote: "It is primarily a tool to intimidate our partners in Europe. It has questionable combat effectiveness. Oreshnik is built on last century's technologies and requires constant technical maintenance and rapid fixing of various faults."
More details: Luhovskyi also said that the Kremlin leadership is not ready for genuine negotiations to end the war and that Russia is pursuing a strategy of running down the clock.
He said that the Kremlin continues to bet on maximum advances deeper into Ukrainian territory, believing the front line and the rear could collapse.
Background:
- Russian forces attacked Ukraine with 278 airborne weapons on the night of 8-9 January, including one Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a clear response from the world is needed, particularly from the United States, after Russia's use of an Oreshnik missile.
- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha has said that Russia's Oreshnik missile strike on Lviv Oblast, near the borders with EU and NATO countries, poses a threat to European security and requires a tough response from partners.
- On 22 January in Davos, Zelenskyy underlined the threat to Europe posed by Russia's Oreshnik missile installed in Belarus.
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