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Kyiv (CNN) — Russia fired a hypersonic Oreshnik missile at a target in western Ukraine overnight Thursday, near the border with NATO member Poland, in what has been labeled a brazen “warning” to the wider continent and the United States.

It marked the first time in more than a year that Moscow had unleashed the Oreshnik, which can contain multiple warheads and carry either conventional or nuclear payloads.

While Russia did not confirm the target of the Oreshnik missile fire, the country’s Ministry of Defense noted a “massive strike with high-precision long-range land and sea-based weapons, including the Oreshnik mobile medium-range ground-based missile system,” in a statement on Friday.

Meanwhile, Russian forces launched hundreds of air weapons in a barrage that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said targeted “energy facilities and civilian infrastructure” in multiple regions, including Kyiv. More than half a million households were without power in the Kyiv region Friday, with the capital’s mayor asking residents to leave the city temporarily to access power and heat elsewhere.

Russia said it launched its latest attack in response to Ukraine’s purported attempt to hit Russian President Vladimir Putin’s home last month. The CIA had assessed Ukraine was not targeting a residence used by Putin, according to US officials.

European allies issued a tide of condemnation against Moscow on Friday, revealing a widened gap between Russian and Western positions soon after intensive US-led peace talks broke down in December.

Ukrainian security officials accused Moscow of committing a “war crime,” warning that debris from the Oreshnik missile had been located in Lviv and “classified as material evidence.”

“SBU investigators classify the use of this weapon against Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure as a war crime on the part of the Russian Federation,” the Ukrainian security service said in a statement.

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said in a post on X that, “such a strike close to (the) EU and NATO border is a grave threat to the security on the European continent and a test for the transatlantic community.”

Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, cautioned in a post on X Friday: “Russia’s reported use of an Oreshnik missile is a clear escalation against Ukraine and meant as a warning to Europe and to the US.”

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday, a Downing Street spokeswoman said.

The three leaders agreed that “Russia’s ongoing attacks in Ukraine, including of the use of an Oreshnik inte

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN

(CNN) — Russia launched an Oreshnik missile into Ukraine overnight into Friday for the second time since the full-scale war began 2022, in a strike that Kyiv and its allies say is meant as a warning for the West.

While Russian defense officials did not say where the Oreshnik hit this time, Ukrainian authorities on Friday reported several explosions and a ballistic missile strike in the western city of Lviv.

The first use of the new weapon – which can carry nuclear or conventional payloads – was to target an apparently vacant factory in Dnipro in late November 2024.

Here’s what we know about the missile.

What is the Oreshnik?

It is likely a medium-range ballistic missile, with its use so far indicating a range of 600 to 1,000 miles. US defense officials deemed the Oreshnik fired in November 2024 to be an “intermediate-range ballistic missile” or IRBM, suggesting they thought its actual range could be over 3,000 miles.

The distance from Kapustin Yar, the Russian base from which it is thought to have been fired, to Lviv, its target this week, is about 900 miles.

A distinguishing feature of the Oreshnik is its capacity to rain down multiple separate warheads from the main missile. As many as six multiple independently-targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), which may themselves contain four to six ordnances, separate from the missile as it travels at hypersonic speeds; each can be pointed at specific objects, allowing one ballistic missile to launch a larger attack.

Where does its name come from?

Oreshnik means “Hazel Tree”, based on its appearance when its multiple warheads fall to earth in streaks of fiery light. The Ukrainians called the first one fired the “Kedr” – Cedar.

US officials have suggested it might be an evolution, or a basic copy, of the RS-26 Rubezh missile first developed in 2008.

Russia and the United States are in dispute over renewing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, intended to ban IRBMs entirely and reduce the threat of nuclear-capable missile on the European continent. The US formally withdrew from the treaty in 2019.

Russia’s first launch of the Oreshnik in 2024 came days after the Biden administration authorized Kyiv to fire US-supplied ATACMS missiles into Russia.

Can it be intercepted?

The Oreshnik moves faster than most modern missiles, at an estimated 8,000 mph (13,000 kph). Its trajectory takes it steeply upwards, out of the atmosphere, and then brings it back down again sharply, with its warheads aimed at separate targets. This makes it almost unstoppable by the air defense systems available to Ukraine.

This sort of missile was designed to carry nuclear payloads. It is rare, expensive, and harks back to the Cold War era.

The Oreshnik has only carried conventional explosives so far, but is from a missile class whose speed and capability echo the nuclear threat. It is thought the United States was notified before its first use in late 2024, to ensure it was not mistakenly assessed to be a nuclear launch.

Ukrainian experts from the Military Research Laboratory of the Kyiv Scientific Research Institute of Forensic Expertise, who examined what they said were the remnants of the first Oreshnik missile fired on Dnipro in November 2024, told CNN early last year that the missile did not appear to use much modern circuitry or show any major technological leaps forward, but relied on known desi

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By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN

(CNN) — Russia launched an Oreshnik missile into Ukraine overnight into Friday for the second time since the full-scale war began 2022, in a strike that Kyiv and its allies say is meant as a warning for the West.

While Russian defense officials did not say where the Oreshnik hit this time, Ukrainian authorities on Friday reported several explosions and a ballistic missile strike in the western city of Lviv.

The first use of the new weapon – which can carry nuclear or conventional payloads – was to target an apparently vacant factory in Dnipro in late November 2024.

Here’s what we know about the missile.

What is the Oreshnik?

It is likely a medium-range ballistic missile, with its use so far indicating a range of 600 to 1,000 miles. US defense officials deemed the Oreshnik fired in November 2024 to be an “intermediate-range ballistic missile” or IRBM, suggesting they thought its actual range could be over 3,000 miles.

The distance from Kapustin Yar, the Russian base from which it is thought to have been fired, to Lviv, its target this week, is about 900 miles.

A distinguishing feature of the Oreshnik is its capacity to rain down multiple separate warheads from the main missile. As many as six multiple independently-targetable reentry vehicles (MIRVs), which may themselves contain four to six ordnances, separate from the missile as it travels at hypersonic speeds; each can be pointed at specific objects, allowing one ballistic missile to launch a larger attack.

Where does its name come from?

Oreshnik means “Hazel Tree”, based on its appearance when its multiple warheads fall to earth in streaks of fiery light. The Ukrainians called the first one fired the “Kedr” – Cedar.

US officials have suggested it might be an evolution, or a basic copy, of the RS-26 Rubezh missile first developed in 2008.

Russia and the United States are in dispute over renewing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, intended to ban IRBMs entirely and reduce the threat of nuclear-capable missile on the European continent. The US formally withdrew from the treaty in 2019.

Russia’s first launch of the Oreshnik in 2024 came days after the Biden administration authorized Kyiv to fire US-supplied ATACMS missiles into Russia.

Can it be intercepted?

The Oreshnik moves faster than most modern missiles, at an estimated 8,000 mph (13,000 kph). Its trajectory takes it steeply upwards, out of the atmosphere, and then brings it back down again sharply, with its warheads aimed at separate targets. This makes it almost unstoppable by the air defense systems available to Ukraine.

This sort of missile was des

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Un artefacto explosivo fue lanzado este jueves contra una diputada del opositor Partido Nacional de Honduras, minutos antes de una sesión del Parlamento a la que convocó su titular, Luis Redondo, para dar a conocer un informe sobre los resultados de las elecciones generales del 30 de noviembre.

El explosivo le causó lesiones en la espalda y la cabeza a la diputada Gladys Aurora López, quien cayó al piso y luego fue llevada en un vehículo a un hospital de la capital hondureña.

La detonación se produjo cuando varios diputados del Partido Nacional -vencedores en las últimas elecciones- acompañaban al jefe de bancada, Tomás Zambrano, quien estaba brindando declaraciones a periodistas.

Los diputados estaban a tres metros de un ascensor en la parte posterior del Parlamento cuando explosionó el artefacto en la espalda de López, quien de inmediato fue protegida por policías.

“¿Por qué no entraron (en el Parlamento)?”, preguntaron periodistas a Gladys y a una compañera. Y cuando la diputada pronunciaba aparentemente un “cerraron”, el artefacto, proveniente del exterior del recinto, le explotó en la espalda, según las imágenes difundidas de lo sucedido.

Diputados de las bancadas de los opositores partidos Nacional y Liberal acudieron hoy al Parlamento ante la convocatoria que hizo Redondo, pero solamente para hacer presencia porque consideran que el titular del poder Legislativo quiere que se haga un recuento de más de 19.000 actas electorales de los comicios generales del 30 de noviembre, aún cuando el Consejo Nacional Electoral (CNE) brindó los resultados finales el 30 de diciembre.

El nuevo presidente electo de Honduras, Nasry ‘Tito’ Asfura, del Partido Nacional y al que apoya el presidente estadounidense, Donald Trump, lamentó el incidente y dijo al Canal 3 de televisión en Tegucigalpa que espera que la diputada López “esté bien de salud”.

Asfura se encontraba en San Pedro Sula, norte del país, donde hoy se reunió con empresarios para hablar sobre sus proyectos en el nuevo gobierno en lo que respecta a la creación de nuevos puestos de trabajo e incrementar la producción.

“No quiero pensar que sea realmente por temas políticos (el incidente en el Parlamento), pero realmente son cosas que no pueden suceder. A estas alturas no pueden seguir sucediendo, hay una elección clara, una elección con un nuevo presidente, con un nuevo Congreso, donde todos debemos respetar la ley, trabajar en paz y darle respuestas a la gente”, enfatizó Asfura, quien asumirá el poder el próximo 27 de enero.

Señaló, además, que no es con violencia, ni con odio que el país saldrá adelante.

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By Leah Dolan, CNN

(CNN) — Swedish musician Robyn’s live performance Thursday of “Sexistential” — the title track of her new album to be released in March — began in a shoulder stand with legs in the air. The fact she was wearing high-waisted red leather pants barely seemed to register as she rolled herself supine and began to writhe around the stage. Nothing, especially not a constrictive outfit, will keep the off-beat performer from moving how she wants to.

The striking routine on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert offered a sneak peak of Robyn’s new record, her first since 2018. The singer’s outfit — rib-grazing leather trousers, a white cotton t-shirt topped with black leather waistcoat embroidered with gold swirling patterns, and a single embellished elbow-length glove — was from Italian designer Dario Vitale’s one and only collection for Versace before his shock exit in December. It was “uncomplicated elegance, unbound by inhibition,” according to the Versace press release. There was no doubt about the latter part. But the elegance in this quirky look did feel complicated, challenging even, to take in at first glance. It was a little bit punk rock by way of Chrissie Hynde, very 1980s Giovanni Versace, with a dash of Michael Jackson visible in the solo glittering glove.

Vitale’s debut collection was one of the most anticipated of last season, and was lauded by critics as daring, original and delightfully wacky. He rejected a vision of Versace that was safe in terms of commercial viability, and instead offered up something more unexpected. It seems fitting then that his clothes were chosen by Robyn — a figure who has long cultivated a madcap sense of style herself. While newcomers to Robyn might be bewildered at her sartorial direction, longtime fans will remember plenty of zany red carpet appearances over the years – such as in 2011, when she arrived in a peach-toned kimono, two white leather belts, painted striped capri-length leggings and green Prada canvas open-toed brogues with a wedge platform heel. For the MoMA garden party in 2016, Robyn opted for a sequined ‘70s style jumpsuit by designer Michael Halpern in which one leg was a different pattern to the rest of the piece. Hers has always been a fashion palette built on clashing.

But Robyn’s puzzling Versace outfit Thursday began to make better sense as she sang the equally disorienting lyrics to “Sexistential,” a song which bounces between her struggles with IVF, being horny for Adam Driver and her spending habits on Etsy.

Of course, the focal point was the firetruck-red pants: a sexual center of gravity that Robyn ran her hand over, thrusted and splayed her legs in. It’s the playbook of Hynde, Joan Jett and Marianne Faithful — but with a straight leg instead of skin tight, for that all-important room to dance.

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