Russia has used its nuclear-capable ballistic missile -- dubbed Oreshnik -- three times in the war against Ukraine. According to the Kremlin, it is a “state-of-the-art” weapon that cannot be intercepted. On Sunday, the intermediate-range projectile struck an undisclosed location in Bila Tserkva, a town in greater Kyiv, the Ukrainian army said.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. In early January, the hypersonic missile hit a major gas depot in the Lviv region in western Ukraine, local officials said. Named after the Russian word for hazel tree, it was first fired at a plant in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in 2024, Moscow said. The rocket did not carry a nuclear payload in any of the three strikes. Here is what we know about the weapon: - Range - Russia said Oreshnik is an intermediate-range missile, meaning it can reach targets between 3,000 and 5,500 kilometres (1,860-3,400 miles) away. Sergei Karakayev, the commander of Russia’s Strategic Rocket Forces -- which controls its nuclear arsenal and intercontinental ballistic missile programme -- has said that Oreshnik can hit targets “throughout Europe”. Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko, a key ally of Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin, said that Oreshnik had been deployed in his country, which borders NATO’s eastern flank. Moscow promptly announced that the missile system had “entered combat duty”. Ukraine says the missile was fired from the Kapustin Yar range, near the southern Russian city of Volgograd.