Ukraine-Russia latest: Putin’s forces in cruise missile drills as Zelensky announces test of Kyiv-made missile
Russian Navy frigates equipped with new-generation hypersonic cruise missiles have conducted drills in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, according to the Russian defence ministry.
The crews of the frigates fired Zircon (Tsirkon) hypersonic anti-ship missiles, while a Russian submarine launched a Kalibr cruise missile, another weapon capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, the ministry said.
On the coast nearby, a missile system carried out a live launch of an Onyx anti-ship missile.
Meanwhile, Volodymyr Zelensky announced Ukraine has conducted a test on new domestically made missiles and is ramping up missile production.
“We can thank our Ukrainian missile developers. We are speeding up the production,” he said, without providing further details.
Kyiv is ramping up domestic production in an attempt to speed up weapons supplies and decrease its dependency on Western aid deliveries.
On the frontlines, Moscow’s troops have been capturing village after village in Ukraine’s east, part of a drive to seize the industrial Donbas region, while Russian airstrikes target a hobbled Ukrainian energy grid as winter sets in.
