MOSCOW, August 19. /TASS/. The so-called first Ukrainian ballistic missile of indigenous manufacture, Flamingo, unveiled recently by Kiev, is in fact a product of the Emirati-British company Milanion Group. This revelation suggests an attempt by Ukraine’s political leadership to conceal the true extent of its military-industrial decline, Alexander Stepanov, a military expert at the Institute of Law and National Security of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and senior researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, has told TASS in an interview.
Recently, Efrem Lukatsky, a photojournalist from the Ukrainian bureau of the Associated Press, published the first image of the missile, claiming it as a Ukrainian-engineered development. According to its purported specifications, Flamingo boasts a range of 3,000 km, a flight altitude of up to 5 km, a maximum speed of 950 km/h, a payload capacity of up to one ton, and a wingspan of six meters. Such capabilities could enable Kiev to extend its strike reach deep into Russian territory, potentially targeting critical infrastructure - including nuclear power plants, which are already frequent targets despite international prohibitions.
