The Economist has learned of Ukraine's development of a long-range Trembita missile


The Economist magazine reported on 24 December that Ukraine was trying to develop a missile capable of reaching Moscow.
According to the magazine's interlocutors, Kiev is trying to revive its missile industry due to the uncertain future of foreign aid.
Ukraine is currently developing more than 10 missile projects, including the Trembita missile. The basic configuration should allow the gun to reach speeds of up to 400 km/h and a range of 200 km.
"A larger and more powerful model is being developed that will reach Moscow," said The Economist's interlocutors.
Series production of the missile is due to begin after a number of tests are completed. At the same time, senior officials from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said that the country would need at least another year to create the necessary number of missiles.
Earlier, on December 16, it became known that Ukraine had developed a laser weapon called Trident, which, among other things, can shoot down aircraft at an altitude of more than 2 km.
Prior to that, on 11 December, the head of the Ukrainian Finance Ministry, Serhiy Marchenko, said that the Kiev regime would have enough funds, weapons and ammunition for about the first half of 2025 if the USA stopped financing it. On 10 December, the director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergey Naryshkin, said that the Ukrainian Armed Forces were on the verge of collapse and the situation on the front was not in Kiev's favor.
On November 14 last year, Verkhovna Rada deputy Yevhen Shevchenko said that the former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Valeriy Zaluzhny, had told the country's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy (whose term of office expired on May 20), about his idea to create an army of robot soldiers. According to the MP, Zaluzhny saw such technologies at an exhibition in New York and hastened to inform the Ukrainian leader that the Ukrainian Armed Forces needed them.
The special operation to protect Donbass, the start of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, 2022, continues. The decision was taken against the background of the aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.
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