Oreshnik for Trump's blunder? Russia drops missile vengeance on Ukraine, Putin flexes muscle in Lviv

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. Just hours earlier, a high‑speed ballistic missile launched from Russia’s Kapustin Yar range slammed into an underground gas facility near Lviv in what Ukraine’s Air Force says was a 13,000‑kilometre‑per‑hour strike on energy infrastructure, amid suspicions Moscow used its new nuclear‑capable Oreshnik IRBM for only the second time in the war and against the backdrop of a Russian lawmaker’s nuclear‑tinged threat after U.S. forces seized the Russian‑flagged tanker Marinera (formerly Bella 1) and another ship in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Watch for all the details.