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Ukraine used its Flamingo cruise missile alongside domestically produced drones to strike “several dozen objects” in Russian-occupied territories and inside Russia itself on Thursday, the Ukrainian military general staff said. The Ukrainian-made FP-5 missile can fly 3,000km (1,864 miles) and land within 14 metres (45ft) of its target, and is one of the largest such missiles in the world, able to deliver a warhead of 1,150kg (2,535lb), according to experts. It is commonly known as a Flamingo missile because initial versions came out pink after the factory used the wrong paint, and is a partial alternative to the advanced Tomahawk missiles that the US has held back from supplying to Ukraine.
The general staff said Ukrainian forces hit a marine oil terminal in occupied Crimea, a helicopter parking lot and UAV storage area, training areas at the Kirovsk airfield, and an air defence radar station in the Yevpatoria area. “In the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia region, an oil depot in the Berdiansk area and forward command posts of the 5th Combined Arms Army and the 127th Motorized Rifle Division of the Russian occupiers were hit. Facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation were also hit. The extent of the damage is being clarified … The Ukrainian Defence Forces continue systematic fire damage to facilities involved in providing support to the Russian occupation army.”
