Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his country has developed a weapon that can hit a target 700km (435 miles) away, in an apparent reference to an aerial attack this week on an airport in western Russia that destroyed several military aircraft.
The weapon was produced by Ukraine’s Ministry of Strategic Industries but he gave no further details.
“The range of our new Ukrainian weapons is now 700 kilometres. The task is to make this number bigger,” Zelenskyy wrote late on Thursday night in a post to the social media platform X, previously known as Twitter.
Zelenskyy’s claim of new Ukrainian long-range weaponry came ahead of a Russian official reporting early on Friday morning that air defence units had “neutralised an unidentified object” in Russia’s western region of Pskov, the same region where a Ukrainian aerial attack reportedly damaged four Il-76 military transport planes on Wednesday.
While Ukraine rarely comments directly on specific attacks inside Russia, Zelenskyy appeared to hint twice on Thursday that Ukrainian forces were behind the Pskov attack.
Original from www.aljazeera.com rnrn
