Putin explained the reason for the Oreşnik attack

Putin said that the Oreşnik attack on Ukraine was carried out to see the deployment and results of the system. The statement is related to the attacks on May 24...

Scraper SystemJune 05, 2026, 10:57 AM

Putin explained the reason for the Oreşnik attack

Russian leader Vladimir Putin said that the purpose of the attack on Ukraine with the Oreşnik system was to see the results on site after the launch. Putin argued that this attack was not a full combat use.

In the statement conveyed to the Russian media, Putin said that Russia had tested such systems in training fields before, but they did not test Oreşnik there. According to him, the target of the attack in Ukraine was to observe how the system was deployed and how the parts were distributed.

The target described by Putin

Putin said that the attack was more for examining the results than "use in war." The Russian leader claimed that this was necessary for decisions regarding the full-scale deployment of Oreşnik in the future.

According to Putin's words, the attacks also covered the White Church and the temporarily occupied part of the Donetsk region. Then, unmanned aerial vehicles were directed to these points, and the location of the scattered parts was checked.

Connection with previous attacks

The report also included information that a large-scale air attack was carried out against Ukraine on the night of May 24. The Ukrainian Air Force announced that 90 missiles and 600 various types of unmanned aerial vehicles were used in this attack; Oreşnik was among them.

It was reported that two people died and 78 were injured in Kyiv on that date. In a letter sent by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to US President Donald Trump and Congress, it was stated that Russia launched two Oreşnik missiles at Ukraine that night.

In his letter, Zelenskyy wrote that one of the missiles hit the White Church in the Kyiv region, and the other hit the occupied part of Donetsk. Putin's recent statement brought the narrative about these attacks back to the agenda.

Mutual statements regarding the use of Oreşnik on Ukrainian territory keep the debate about the scope and purpose of the attack alive. The Russian leader's words also highlighted the decision debate on how and to what extent the system will be used in the future.