This run-down town is the launchpad for the superweapon Putin used to attack Ukraine

Russia fired Oreshnik ballistic missiles at Ukraine from a restricted zone in the country's southeast. Residents who live nearby said they know little about the launch site. Kremlin / Handout / Latin America News Agency via Reuters Connect

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has ordered Oreshnik ballistic missiles to be fired at Ukraine, and each time they came from a restricted area in the barren steppe of southeastern Russia.

The most recent Oreshnik attack came on Sunday amid a massive barrage that killed four people and injured many more, according to Ukrainian media. Strangely, the powerful $40 million ballistic missile caused only a smattering of damage to a garage complex near Kyiv.…