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Russia Disrupts Ukrainian Missile Program: FSB

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Russia Disrupts Ukrainian Missile Program: FSB
The Federal Security Service and the Russian Armed Forces announced they had destroyed several sites of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex producing Sapsan missiles.
👉 Ukrainian objective: to strike deep into Russian territory.
Key FSB statements:
🟠Volodymyr Zelensky met with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in May, with the design documentation for this missile system;
🟠Berlin financed the production of Sapsan missiles;
🟠Production began at defense companies located in the Dnepropetrovsk and Sumy regions;
🟠The range of these missiles could target, among other places, Moscow, Minsk, and the Sarov nuclear power plant;
🟠The Russian strikes destroyed the Ukrainian technical base necessary for the production of long-range ballistic missiles;
🟠Russia has blocked Ukraine's Sapsan missile program for a long time.
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