Zelenskyy says Ukraine has developed a long-range weapon, a day after a strike deep inside Russia

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday his country has developed a weapon that hit a target 700 kilometers away, in an apparent reference to the previous day's strike on an airport in western Russia.

On Wednesday, a four-hour wave of drones that Moscow blamed on Ukraine hit an airport near Russia's border with Estonia and Latvia, damaging four Il-76 military transport planes, according to local reports.In all, six Russian regions were targeted in the barrage amid the 18-month war.

Kyiv officials normally neither claim nor deny responsibility for attacks on Russian soil, though they sometimes refer obliquely to them. Zelenskyy's remark was the clearest hint that Ukraine was behind the strike. Another drone intercepted overnight near Moscow resulted in flight delays at several airports around the Russian capital, officials said Thursday. No injuries were reported.

The apparent Ukrainian drones reaching deep into Russia and cross-border sabotage missions are part of Kyiv's efforts to heap domestic pressure on the Kremlin, militarily and politically. Meantime, a Ukrainian counteroffensive launched in June is chipping away at some parts of the front line, Kyiv officials claim.

 

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