By Tom Balmforth KYIV (Reuters) - A senior Ukrainian official said on Friday that drone strikes on Russian soil were set to increase and that recent ...
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Ukraine had ramped up its strikes on occupied areas, and attacks inside Russia itself would also increase, carried out by"agents" or"partisans", Podolyak said. Drone attacks on Russia have sharply increased in scale and frequency in recent weeks, culminating this week with strikes that hit six Russian regions in one night and destroyed transport planes in a blaze at a military airfield.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday praised what he said was the use of new Ukrainian weaponry with a range of 700 km - roughly the distance from Ukraine's border to Pskov, where a Russian military airbase was engulfed in flames a day earlier.Ukraine has hit back at critics of the slow progress of its much-vaunted counteroffensive in the east and south that has been hampered by heavily-mined areas and Russian defensive lines that were prepared over the course of months.
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