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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that his country has developed a long-range weapon that hit a target 700 kilometers away, thus referring to the attack a day earlier on an airport in the western part of Russia. .
In a post on his Telegram channel, he said the weapon was produced by Ukraine's Ministry of Strategic Industries, but gave no further 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.
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.
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