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Ukrainian officials say their military is now using a long-range missile that was designed and manufactured domestically and can reach targets inside Russia

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[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ukrainian officials say their military is now using a long-range missile that was designed and manufactured domestically and can reach targets inside Russia — a potentially crucial capability because the United States and other Western supporters have imposed restrictions on using weapons they donate to strike Russian territory.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, posting on the social media platform Telegram, said Ukrainian forces had successfully hit a target 700 kilometers (435 miles) away, using a missile “of our own production.”

The secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, Oleksiy Danilov, said Friday that the missile could travel farther but did not specify its full range.

“Sevastopol is waiting, Kamchatka is waiting, Kronshtadt is waiting,” Danilov wrote, perhaps with some exaggeration. Kamchatka, in Russia’s Far East, is about 4,500 miles from Ukraine. Reaching it would require an intercontinental ballistic missile, which only 10 countries in the world are believed to possess.

Ukrainian forces are increasingly striking at targets inside Russia and occupied Crimea — which Russia invaded and illegally annexed in 2014. Most of the Ukrainian strikes involve self-destructing water or aerial drones, and units of the country’s intelligence services. Ukraine often denies any connection to such the attacks, but officials privately confirm the strikes or issue statements celebrating them and indicating the involvement of Ukraine’s military or special services.

“The war is increasingly moving to Russia’s territory, and it cannot be stopped,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak tweeted Wednesday, after a drone attack on an airfield in Pskov, Russia, damaged or destroyed several military planes.

[–] btaf45@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Kamchatka WTF? Anyone who has played Risk knows that Kamchatka is a long way from Ukraine.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Range is one thing. Hopefully it's accurate or else who knows what they would hit. It wouldn't look good if they hit civilians by accident.

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And the name of a ship with an... ~~incopmetent~~ interesting story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mdi_Fh9_Ag

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

God I love that episode.

[–] Juujian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm more surprised about Kaliningrad, what route would that even be?!

[–] KingSlareXIV@infosec.pub 14 points 1 year ago

Go to Moscow, hang a left. When you hit the North Pole, head south...not, not that south, the other one! The other other one. After a bit, take another left for a couple hours, and you'll arrive at your destination on the right.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago

Poland will write a very strongly worded letter to Zelensky if that happens. They might even keep a straight face when delivering it to the Ukrainian ambassador.

[–] andrei_chiffa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

R-36 "Satan" was desinged by and manufactured at Yuzhmash, now Pivden'mash, located in Dnipro, Ukraine. More recently, Pivden'mash has been building "Zenit" rockets, that has >70 successful launches and has a 13.7 t payload to LEO.

I think Ukraine is mostly waiting for a proper excuse rather than capabilities to send non-nucler ICBM in towards strategic locations in Russia.