Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine’s long-range strikes were increasingly reaching deep inside Russian territory, claiming attacks had hit military-linked targets thousands of kilometres from the Ukrainian border.
In a message published on May 7, Zelenskyy thanked Ukrainian forces for the “precision” of recent long-range operations and said targets in the Russian city of Perm — more than 1,500km from Ukraine — had been struck.
He also pointed to what he described as “important results” in Chelyabinsk, around 1,800 km away, and Yekaterinburg, nearly 2,000 km from the border. According to Zelenskyy, Ukrainian strikes had also affected Novorossiysk, Krymsk, Tuapse, as well as Russia’s Samara and Nizhny Novgorod regions.
The Ukrainian president described the attacks as “long-range sanctions” imposed by Ukraine’s armed forces against facilities linked to Russia’s military-industrial sector, wartime infrastructure and the financing of what Kyiv calls Russian aggression.
“We have repeatedly offered the Russian leadership a
He added that Russia could choose “every day” to end the war, criticising Moscow for seeking what he portrayed as temporary pauses in fighting linked to Victory Day commemorations on 9 May.
“People’s lives should be valued, not parades,” Zelenskyy said. “Peace should be established, not appeals made around world capitals for a pause for May 9.”
Moscow has not yet publicly commented on Zelenskyy’s latest remarks or on the reported strikes.
By Aghakazim Guliyev
