Ukraine has developed a long-range missile that could allow Ukrainian forces to strike crucial Russian targets in occupied Crimea and beyond, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
“We have successfully employed our long-range weapons: The target was struck at a distance of 700 kilometers [435 miles],” Zelensky wrote on social media, according to a Kyiv Post translation.A top Zelensky aide put a fine point on the significance of the capability. “Sevastopol is waiting,” Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said in a sardonic quotation of a Russian song.
The announcement puts a spotlight on Ukrainian efforts to transcend the restrictions imposed by the United States and other Western allies that provided shorter-range weapons to Ukrainian forces on the condition that they not be used to strike Russian territory. Zelensky’s team trumpeted that development amid a flurry of apparent drone attacks against Russian targets, including one bombardment that reportedly damaged or destroyed several military transport planes at a base in Pskov, Russia — several hundred miles from the Ukrainian border. That attack, according to Ukrainska Pravda, was carried out using “cardboard drones” developed by Ukrainian security services as a way to avoid radar detection.
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