{"id":361434,"date":"2026-01-09T19:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/361434\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T19:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T19:37:08","slug":"bbc-verify-live-misleading-ice-footage-spreading-after-night-of-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/361434\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Misleading ICE footage spreading after night of protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia hits Ukraine with Oreshnik ballistic missile for a second timepublished at 12:48 GMT<\/p>\n

12:48 GMT<\/p>\n

Thomas Spencer
BBC Verify researcher<\/p>\n

BBC Verify has been looking into Russian claims that it launched an Oreshnik ballistic missile strike against Ukraine overnight.<\/p>\n

We have been unable to geolate the footage because of lack of distinctive details and darkness, but we have been able to confirm that the footage is new. <\/p>\n

We showed the CCTV footage that purports to show the missile hitting Ukraine\u2019s Lviv region to numerous experts.<\/p>\n

\"CCTVImage source, TelegramImage caption, <\/p>\n

CCTV footage of strike in Lviv region<\/p>\n

They agreed the video was \u201cvisually consistent\u201d with what would be expected from the reported characteristics of the Oreshnik, an upgraded intermediate range ballistic missile thought to be capable of simultaneously launching multiple warheads.<\/p>\n

Fabian Hinz, Research Fellow for Missile Technologies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies identified the missile from the \u201cdistinctive pattern of submunitions seen glowing as they descend at high speeds\u201d.<\/p>\n

However, some of the experts we spoke to disagree on whether the missile was armed with multiple warheads.<\/p>\n

Alistair Saddington, Professor of Defence Aeronautics at the University of Cranfield added there were no immediate signs of explosions.<\/p>\n

It is only the second time that Moscow has used the Oreshnik, which was first deployed to hit the central city of Dnipro in November 2024. This weapon that is thought to pose a serious challenge to Ukraine’s air defences and is claimed to be capable of carrying nuclear warheads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia hits Ukraine with Oreshnik ballistic missile for a second timepublished at 12:48 GMT 12:48 GMT Thomas SpencerBBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-361434","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}