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		</div><p>Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said his country has developed a weapon that hit a target 700km away, in an apparent reference to the previous day’s strike on an airport in western Russia.</p>
<p>Mr Zelenskiy said on his Telegram channel the weapon was produced by Ukraine’s Ministry of Strategic Industries but gave no other details.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, a four-hour wave of drones that Moscow blamed on Ukraine hit an airport near Russia’s border with Estonia and Latvia, damaging four Il-76 military transport planes, according to local reports.</p>
<p>The airport is in Russia’s Pskov region, about 700km north of the Ukrainian border.</p>
<p>In all, six Russian regions were targeted in the barrage amid the 18-month war.</p>
<p>The Associated Press was unable to determine whether the drones were launched from Ukraine or inside Russia.</p>
<figure id="attachment_180279" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-180279" style="width: 634px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/26E1295F-3B61-47E7-80DC-36C08367D096.jpeg" alt="" width="634" height="934" class="size-full wp-image-180279" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-180279" class="wp-caption-text">The four-hour wave of drones hit a Russian airport, damaging four military transport planes</figcaption></figure>
<p>Normally, Kyiv officials neither claim nor deny responsibility for attacks on Russian soil, though they sometimes refer obliquely to them.</p>
<p>Mr Zelenskiy’s remark was the clearest hint that Ukraine was behind the strike.</p>
<p>The attack forced the closure of Pskov Airport, though it reopened on Thursday, according to Russian transport officials.</p>
<p>Another drone intercepted overnight near Moscow resulted in flight delays at several airports around the Russian capital, officials said Thursday.</p>
<p>No injuries were reported.</p>
<figure id="attachment_180278" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-180278" style="width: 637px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/C153C74A-5CAB-41D7-83A1-559D89E2C783.jpeg" alt="" width="637" height="420" class="size-full wp-image-180278" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-180278" class="wp-caption-text">The Ukrainian counteroffensive is said to be chipping away at some parts of the front line</figcaption></figure>
<p>Elsewhere, Russian news agency Interfax reported that security services killed two people and detained five members of a Ukrainian sabotage group in the Bryansk border region on Wednesday.</p>
<p>The apparent Ukrainian drones reaching deep into Russia and cross-border sabotage missions are part of Kyiv’s efforts to heap domestic pressure on the Kremlin, militarily and politically.</p>
<p>In the meantime, a Ukrainian counteroffensive launched in June is chipping away at some parts of the front line, Kyiv officials claim.</p>
<p>Ukraine is aiming to “erode Russian morale and increase pressure on its commanders,” the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think tank, said in an assessment.</p>
<p>The strategy is “to bring Russian forces to a tipping point where combat power and morale may begin to break,” the The International Institute for Strategic Studies said in the analysis.</p>
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