Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi has said it is currently unknown whether Russia used an Oreshnik missile in the attack on Lviv Oblast on 8 January.

In Lviv, a series of loud explosions was heard during the night of January 8–9. Online reports claimed a strike by the Oreshnik system, but this information has not been officially confirmed. Everything known about the situation in Lviv is detailed in the RBC-Ukraine report below.

Russia reportedly struck a critical infrastructure site in Ukraine’s Lviv region in the early hours of January 9, possibly using an Oreshnik ballistic missile, triggering nationwide air raid alerts and warnings from the US Embassy in Kyiv.

Russia pounded Ukraine with overnight missile and drone attacks on January 8–9, killing at least four people and injuring 19 in Kyiv, while separate Iskander and drone strikes tore into apartment buildings in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih.

A Russian attack struck an infrastructure target in western Ukraine's Lviv region, officials in the region said early on Friday, although providing no details on the weapon used.

EADaily, . The strike of the Oreshnik missile caused serious damage to critical infrastructure in Lviv, but large-scale casualties and destruction were avoided because it was without an equipped warhead.

Shortly after Ukraine’s Air Force reported the threat of an intermediate-range ballistic missile launch from a Russian strategic nuclear testing site near the Caspian Sea, explosions rocked the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Friday morning,