“There is a large team of people working in the defense industrial complex. It is not only the state, it is also private institutions. I am very grateful to our guys for the work they are doing. I think it is too early to talk about it, but I will say that it has happened Test of Ukraine’s first ballistic missile, positive,” Zelensky said at a press conference in Kyiv.
The President congratulated the Defense and Industrial Complex of Ukraine on this event. “I cannot divulge further details,” added the politician.
On Sunday, Zelenskiy said that Ukraine has a new self-developed long-range missile drone “Palyanytsia” in its arsenal, which has more than two dozen Russian military airfields in its operational zone.
Also, Zelensky informed that Ukraine used F-16 jet fighters to shoot down the missiles during the last mass attack by Russian missiles and drones.
“During the last massive Russian attack, Ukraine used F-16s to shoot down missiles,” Zelensky said at the “Ukraine 2024 Independence” forum.
“The F-16 performed very well. As part of this massive combined attack on Ukraine, we shot down some missiles with the F-16. And we thank our partners for providing us with the F-16,” Zelensky said.
Russia carried out drone and missile strikes on many regions of Ukraine on Monday. Objects of civil infrastructure were damaged in the impact.
2024-08-28 01:01:32