Moscow test-fired the missile on the city of Dnipro earlier this month.

It has grossly misrepresented that overnight blitz as a “response” to new Western aid and made overblown claims about Russia’s experimental ballistic missile, the Oreshnik, that hit Ukraine’s major industrial city of Dnipro a few days earlier.

“You have hundreds of patients coming in every day,” spilling into the hallways and basements, says Dmytro Stepanskyi, a physician and microbiologist at Dnipro State Medical University.

The week culminated with Russia's use of the powerful new intermediate-range Oreshnik ballistic missile on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

President Vladimir Putin cited the move, alongside the launching of US-supplied longer-range missiles at Russian territory, as behind Russia's decision to launch a new hypersonic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday.