According to a report on the Sputnik News website on January 1, Belarusian President Lukashenko stated on December 31, 2025, that Russia used the “Hazel” hypersonic missile system in 2024 to destroy Ukraine’s “Southern Machine-Building Plant” in less than a minute. Lukashenko said: “(It was) a massive enterprise, one of the most unique during the Soviet era, with five to seven underground levels—at a time when the Soviet Union was preparing for nuclear war. As a result, a ‘Hazel’ missile struck the ‘Southern Machine-Building Plant,’ and this massive, unique, world-class enterprise ceased to exist within a minute.”