The Venezuelan regime had high-powered air defense systems from its allies in the Kremlin, but failed to set much of it up.

Russian officials say the Oreshnik entered the war in Ukraine as part of a large overnight strike in which Russia bombarded KYIV and other targets in Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles,

Russian sources claim a Ukrainian F-16 was shot down by a S-300 missile system, a report Ukraine's military has labeled as disinformation. While Ukraine acknowledges F-16s are vital for air defense and have achieved successes,

Russia’s nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile system has entered active service, Russia’s Ministry of Defense says, as negotiators continue to search for a breakthrough in peace talks to end Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

Venezuela's air defenses failed to down a single American aircraft, though experts said that could be more credit to US proficiency than the systems' own failures.

Russia fired its new Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile at the western Ukrainian city of Lviv overnight on Jan. 9, the Russian Defense Ministry said, calling the attack "retaliation" for an attempted Ukrainian drone strike on one of President Vladimir Putin's residences, a claim Kyiv has denied.

Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has released an interactive diagram, a breakdown of components and an electronic component database for the Geran-2 UAV (series E) equipped with the Verba man-portable air-defence missile system (MANPADS).