Terrifying video shows Putin’s new 7,600mph Oreshnik hypersonic missile ripping into outer space before blitzing Ukraine

The moment a Russian hypersonic missile flew through the atmosphere and struck its target in eastern Ukraine is captured in a terrifying video.

On Thursday, Vladimir Putin fired the new Oreshnik hypersonic missile.

The social media video shows the ballistic missile passing over Russia’s night sky before arriving in the Ukrainian city of Dnipron.

The medium-range rocket pushed itself ahead to achieve its objective, leaving behind a trail of white smoke.

At 7,600 miles per hour, it speeds at Mach 10, which is faster than sound.

As the missile tears across the night sky at one point in the footage, a ring of vapor appears.

The missile’s broad vapour trail is visible from a different perspective that is practically exactly below it.

Early on Thursday morning, the missile destroyed Ukrainian defenses and descended on Dnipro with a cluster bomb of warheads.

The deadly new rocket from Russia is classified as an intermediate-range ballistic missile, or IRBM.

The Pentagon said that although the Kremlin shot the Oreshnik with conventional warheads, it could be upgraded to carry nuclear weapons instead, which heightened fears of nuclear war.

Spokesman Sabrina Singh cautioned that “it could be refitted to certainly carry different types of conventional or nuclear warheads.”

By claiming that Russia probably only possesses a small number of these “experimental” missiles and not enough to significantly alter the course of the war, the US National Security Council sought to allay concerns.

However, as Russia continues to test the missiles, Ukraine’s deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has since issued a warning that there would be at least ten of them.

“There will be at least ten missiles if this is research and combat use,” stated Vadym Skibitskyi.

Putin boasted about the potential of his new weapon and how nothing can stop it in a speech to his country on Thursday.

According to Russian reports, the missile has a 5,000-kilometer range, which would allow it to reach the US West Coast and the majority of Europe.

The despot described the launch as a kind of revenge for Ukraine’s use of long-range missiles from the US and the UK that, for the first time since the start of the war, struck targets deep within Russia.

He also threatened to strike US and British military installations that have manufactured the US ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles.

The action was denounced by President Zelensky as “a clear and severe escalation in the scale and brutality of this war.”

“This demonstrates once further Russia’s lack of interest in peace.

“Putin is not only prolonging the war – he is spitting in the face of those in the world who genuinely want peace to be restored.”

According to the Ukrainian Air Force, the Oreshnik was one of seven missiles fired against Dnipro on Thursday starting at five in the morning.

However, everything but the IRBM, which Ukraine tracked from its launch site in the Astrakhan region, was shot down by the nation’s defenses.

The moment the IRBM warheads struck Ukraine in a cascade of flaming explosions is seen on camera.

Following the missiles’ targeting of infrastructure and businesses, officials stated that no serious damage or injuries had been reported.

After Putin threatened Britain, a defense chief said the nation was “ready for war.”

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