- New Ukrainian-made missiles could reach up to 930 miles into Russia, a top security official said.
- Oleksiy Danilov said the weapons will be used against Russian military facilities — not civilians.
Ukraine is developing Ukrainian-made missiles capable of hitting targets as far as 930 miles into Russian territory, a top Ukrainian security official told Ukrainian Radio.
Oleksiy Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, said Ukrainian-made missiles have been in the works since 2020 and could soon hit from 620 to 930 miles within Russian territory, according to The New Voice of Ukraine's translation.
He failed to name the new missile and didn't give a clear timeline for its deployment.
Unlike Russia, he said, Ukrainian missiles and drones inside Russia will only target factories and military facilities — not civilian objects.
"All this will have its results, taking into account the fact that we do not attack civilian objects of the Russian Federation — schools, kindergartens — as the terrorist country does. We attack either factories or military productions — the components that kill our children. We have to put an end to this," Danilov said, according to a translation by the independent news outlet The New Voice of Ukraine.
As for oil refineries and other objects that frequently catch fire, he said this was the work of Russian partisans, whom Ukraine has no control over.
His comments follow those of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, who said Ukraine's weapons could hit targets more than 430 miles away.
Ukraine has launched a string of drone attacks deep into Russian and Russian-occupied territory in recent weeks, targeting Russian military infrastructure, vessels, airfields, supply lines, and logistical lines.
Ukraine's navy shared a video on Sunday, which they said showed an aerial drone killing a half-dozen Russian service members and destroying their vessel in the Kherson region.
Four Ilyushin Il-76 transport planes were irreparably damaged last Tuesday at a Russian airfield in the Pskov region, a representative for the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense's intelligence division told Reuters.
The recent spate of drone attacks is proof Russia's sophisticated air defense systems are failing, Samuel Bendett, an analyst and expert in unmanned and robotic military systems at the Center for Naval Analyses, previously told Insider.
"Most of these defenses were built to identify and destroy larger targets like missiles, helicopters, aircraft. Many were not really geared towards identifying much smaller UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles]," he said.
Ukraine is racing to build their own weapons to strike inside Russian territory, as the US and NATO allies have strictly banned the use of Western-made weapons in Russia out of fear it could escalate the conflict.