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– Ukraine is preparing to respond. He said homemade weapons Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustam UmarovCommenting on another massive Russian missile attack on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure on August 26.
On August 24, President Volodymyr Zelensky announced the successful launch of a new long-range missile called Balyanka. The next day, X posted a video on social media showing what the bullet looks like.
– During two and a half years of full-scale war, Russia has fired about 10,000 missiles at Ukraine. Missiles of various types and more than 33,000. glide bombs. “To stop attacks on our cities, we can hit the carriers of these weapons – Russian aircraft at military airfields,” Zelensky said in a statement.
The head of state noted that the day before there was the first successful combat use of the Balyancha, developed by Ukrainian troops in order to “destroy the enemy’s offensive potential.” The president also promised that there will be more of this type of drone missiles.
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The video released by Zelensky shows that the Balianika has a range of 700 kilometers. The video showed a map of various Russian airfields in the missile’s impact zone, including the Savasilika airbase in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Currently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces can attack at least 20 Russian airfields using Balzhanika.
The Ukrainian Armed Forces have long-range Western-made missiles in their arsenal, but their range deep into Russia is limited, preventing the Ukrainian military from destroying key Russian military facilities, including airports.
The West does not want to give approval
On August 12, in the context of the Ukrainian Armed Forces offensive in the Kursk region, Volodymyr Zelensky ordered Ukraine to ask the West for permission to use long-range weapons to launch attacks on Russian territory. Relevant requests have been sent to Washington and London, among other countries, but no positive response has been received so far.
On Sunday 25 August, the Guardian quoted senior Ukrainian officials as saying that Ukraine wants permission from the UK to use long-range Storm Shadow missiles to attack Moscow and St Petersburg. According to them, this could force the Kremlin to negotiate a cessation of hostilities.
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