News Wrap: Zelenskyy says Russia used hypersonic missile to send Europe a message
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🗓️ 9 January 2026
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| 0:00.0 | We start the day's other headlines in the Caribbean and the latest action by U.S. forces against a sanctioned oil tanker. |
| 0:07.4 | Southern Command posted unclassified footage today of U.S. troops dropping from a helicopter onto the vessel called the Olina. |
| 0:15.1 | In their post, officials said, quote, there is no safe haven for criminals. |
| 0:19.6 | U.S. government records show that the ship was sanctioned for moving Russian oil under its prior name, |
| 0:24.7 | Minerva M. |
| 0:25.9 | The vessel is the fifth tanker, seized or apprehended by U.S. forces, |
| 0:29.9 | as the Trump administration intensifies its efforts to control shipments to and from Venezuela. |
| 0:36.5 | Ukrainian president, Vladimir Zelensky, says that Russia's use of a new hypersonic missile |
| 0:41.3 | overnight was meant to send a message to other European nations. |
| 0:46.3 | Fragments of the Oreshnik missile were found in the western city of Leviv, near the Polish border. |
| 0:51.3 | It's only the second time that Russia has used such a weapon against Ukraine. |
| 0:55.2 | And it comes as Ukraine and its allies reported progress this week on security guarantees. |
| 1:01.1 | Moscow says it was retaliation for an attempted strike on one of President Vladimir Putin's |
| 1:06.5 | residences last month, which Ukraine has called a lie. In his evening address, Zelensky said that European cities could be next. |
| 1:14.6 | There was another Oryashnik attack, this time against the Lviv region. |
| 1:21.6 | This was again demonstratively close to the borders of the European Union, |
| 1:25.6 | and this, from the point of view of the use of medium-range ballistics, |
| 1:30.3 | is the same challenge for Warsaw, Bucharest, Budapest, and many other capitals. |
| 1:35.3 | The use of the Oresnik missile was part of a broader Russian barrage overnight, |
| 1:40.3 | which included an attack on Kyiv that left at least four people dead and 25 others injured. |
| 1:45.8 | Thousands of apartment buildings were left without heat, even as temperatures plunged well |
| 1:50.3 | below freezing. |
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