A nuclear-capable missile fired into Ukraine near Poland sent a message to Europe days after its leaders agreed to postwar security guarantees, Russian analysts said.

Lviv. Russia fired a powerful hypersonic missile overnight at a target in Ukraine near the border with NATO-member Poland on Jan. 9. The Oreshnik is an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) designed to project power across Europe.

Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president and Deputy Chairman of the Security Council, has posted a video showing the Oreshnik ballistic missile, issuing threats towards European countries that are prepared to deploy troops to Ukraine after a peace deal is reached.

U.S., European and Ukrainian representatives are gathering in Paris on Wednesday for talks regarding a potential peace deal to end Russia’s full-scale invasion.

Russia has launched an Oreshnik missile into Ukraine for the second time since the full-scale war began 2022, in a strike Kyiv’s allies say is meant as a warning for the West. Here’s what we know.

European leaders are due to hold talks Tuesday on U.S.-led peace efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the agreements were “a signal of how seriously Europe and the entire coalition of the willing are ready to work for real security.”

Russia fired a hypersonic Oreshnik missile at a target in western Ukraine overnight Thursday, near the border with NATO member Poland, in what has been labeled a brazen “warning” to the wider continent and the United States.

NATO allies in the Coalition of the Willing are planning security guarantees for Ukraine once Russia's war is over.