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Zelensky: Ukraine has developed long-range weapons

2023-08-31 16:25:52, Kosova & Bota CNA

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on August 31 that his country had developed a long-range weapon that hit a target 700 kilometers away, in an apparent reference to the attack a day earlier on an airport in the western Russia.

Zelensky said on his channel on the Telegram platform that the weapon was produced by the Ministry of Strategic Industries of Ukraine, but gave no other details.

A day earlier, a four-hour wave of drone strikes, which Moscow blamed on Ukraine, hit an airport near Russia's borders with Estonia and Latvia, damaging four Il-76 military transport planes, according to local reports.

The airport is located in the Pskov region of Russia, about 700 kilometers north of the border with Ukraine. In total, six Russian regions were targeted.

The Associated Press news agency was unable to verify whether the drones were launched from Ukraine or from within Russia.

Kiev officials typically neither claim responsibility nor deny responsibility for attacks on Russian territory, although they sometimes refer to those attacks indirectly. Zelensky's latest statement was the clearest hint that Ukraine was behind an attack on Russia.

The August 30 attack forced the closure of Pskov airport, although it reopened today, according to Russian transport officials.

Another drone intercepted overnight near Moscow resulted in flight delays at several airports around the Russian capital, Russian officials said on August 31. No injuries were reported.

Russian news agency Interfax meanwhile reported that security services killed two people and arrested five members of a Ukrainian sabotage group in the Bryansk border region on August 30.

Visible Ukrainian drones reaching deep into Russia and cross-border sabotage missions are part of Kiev's efforts to increase domestic pressure on the Kremlin, both militarily and politically. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian counteroffensive launched in June is making progress in parts of the frontline, Kiev officials claim.

Ukraine is aiming "to erode Russian morale and increase pressure on its commanders," the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) said in an assessment.

The strategy is to "bring Russian forces to a tipping point where combat power and morale may begin to break," the IISS said in the analysis published on the evening of August 30./ REL