“I want to stress once more that our new weapon decisions, including Palianytsia, is our realistic way to act while some of our partners are unfortunately delaying decisions,” Zelenskyy told a news conference.
Ukrainians say the word “Palianytsia”, a type of Ukrainian bread, is too difficult to pronounce for Russians and it has been used, sometimes humorously, during the war as a way to tell Ukrainians and Russians apart.
“It will be very difficult for Russia, difficult to even pronounce what exactly has hit it,” Zelenskyy said of the drone missile.
TOP COMMANDER PROMOTED
In a decree, Zelenskyy promoted his top commander, Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi, to the rank of general, a tacit gesture of praise after Ukraine’s lightning cross-border incursion into Russia’s Kursk region launched on Aug 6.
Slammed by Russia as an escalation and major provocation, Ukraine’s incursion has captured more than 90 settlements in the Kursk region according to Kyiv, the biggest invasion of Russia since World War Two.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Poland’s and Lithuania’s leaders, Zelenskyy told reporters the operation had in part been a preventive move to stop Russian plans to capture the northern city of Sumy.
Apart from capturing prisoners of war and creating a “buffer zone”, Zelenskyy said the operation had other objectives that he could not disclose publicly.
Polish president Andrzej Duda confirmed that Polish PT-91 Twardy tanks given to Kyiv by Warsaw were taking part in the fighting in Kursk region.
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