Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on his Telegram channel that on Friday night, the Ukrainian military used Long Neptune missiles to strike specific targets on Russian territory, the BBC reports, News.bg reports, News.bg reports.
Videos of a missile being launched from a ground-based launcher, allegedly a Ukrainian Long Neptune cruise missile, were posted on social media. According to Telegram channels, the strike was aimed at Novorossiysk.
The Cyberboroshno Telegram channel reported that the target attacked was an air defense regiment located on the southern coast of Novorossiysk, just 500 meters from a hypermarket “Lenta“.
“Long Neptune“ is a long-range version of the Ukrainian cruise missile “Neptune“. According to Ukrainian media, these “surface-to-surface“ missiles have a range of up to 1,000 kilometers, with a warhead exceeding 350 kilograms.