Ukrainian and Western monitoring channels raised the alarm overnight: Russia is allegedly preparing one of the most massive air strikes since the war began - a combined launch of missiles and up to 900 drones, with possible use of the new ballistic missile "Oreshnik." How much of this is a real threat and how much psychological warfare is hard to separate - and that's precisely the point of posts like these.

According to sources tracking the movement of Russian forces, the strike would come from seven different directions at once - a tactic of synchronised waves meant to overwhelm Ukrainian air defence. Additionally, there are reports of strategic aviation being raised, the heavy missile carriers Tu-95 and Tu-22. Ukrainian channels openly urge citizens not to ignore the sirens and to seek shelter immediately.

The real fear has a name: "Oreshnik." It's a hypersonic system with multiple warheads moving at speeds the existing Western systems in Ukraine, including Patriot, can't intercept effectively. The combination - hundreds of kamikaze drones that drain the defence's ammunition and expose radar positions, cruise missiles from the bombers, and finally the hypersonic strike - is designed as a devastating move against energy and military infrastructure.

Here it's worth pausing. Most of these "warnings" come from monitoring channels and anonymous sources, packaged in the language of panic. Does every warning of "the most massive strike yet" come true? The history of this war is full of these announced apocalypses that end up as just another hard, but not decisive, night. Fear itself is a weapon - and both sides know how to use it.

For the Balkan reader, who remembers how war psychosis was built here too, this is a familiar score. When the end of the world is announced every night, you eventually stop listening - and that's precisely the most dangerous moment, when real danger no longer differs from the noise. That's why facts matter: what actually took off, what actually fell, and who has an interest in you believing the worst even before it happens.