The Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has unveiled a new long-range “rocket-drone” that has a range of 430 miles (700 kilometres) with a speed of “430mph which will deliver “hell” inside Russia.
President Zelensky said the first new batch of the Peklo has been delivered to Ukraine’s Armed Forces and the weapon is “fundamentally new type,” but for security reason the capabilities remain secret.
The new drone has twice the range of Western supplied missiles such as the British made Storm Shadow and ATACMS missiles.
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The drone is called Peklo which literally means “hell” in Ukrainian and given the speed at which it can travel it will be difficult to shoot down, but not impossible.
The "Peklo" (Hell) drone-missile — our Ukrainian weapon with proven combat effectiveness. Today, the first batch was delivered to our Defense Forces. The mission now is to scale up production and deployment.
I am grateful to everyone involved in our defense production, whose… pic.twitter.com/MjIcWHgouZ
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) December 6, 2024
Russia and Ukraine will most likely enter into a new throwing match of drones and missiles on each other’s territories.
This comes as Vladimir Putin launched their new missile the Oreshnik into the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in an apparent response of Kyiv using long-range Western missiles.
Putin said on Friday, “Western countries are deliberately escalating tensions, it is them who are responsible for the present-day tragedy and they continue aggravating the situation.
“Such an irresponsible policy is driving the world to the brink of a global conflict.”
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