The Ukrainian Air Force has issued a warning of a high probability that Russia will launch an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile from the Kapustin Yar complex toward Ukraine within the next 24 hours. The alert comes from a Ukrainian military source and follows previous Russian Oreshnik activity from the same launch site.
The Ukrainian Air Force has warned of a high probability of an Oreshnik IRBM launch from the Kapustin Yar test range in the next 24 hours, according to the same single source reporting the alert. This follows earlier Oreshnik activity: on June 11, The Zioneer reported what appeared to be a test launch of the missile from Kapustin Yar, also from a single channel aligned with Russian state sources, which was shortly after declared to have passed. On the same day, a separate report from Russian-state aligned channels suggested that a launch from Kapustin Yar may have occurred without the customary prior notice to the United States, and that the missile may have been a normally nuclear-armed type — an unverified claim. The current alert, issued by the Ukrainian side, introduces a new temporal window. No launch has yet been confirmed. The source quality remains single-source on each side; no independent corroboration of an actual launch or its imminence is available.
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