Kyiv, Aug. 16 -- Ukraine on Saturday launched a series of successful long-range operations targeting key Russian aerospace, military, and energy infrastructure hundreds of kilometers behind the border.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed the development in a post on X, revealing that the forces deployed long-range "Flamingo" missiles to strike the Progress Rocket Space Center in Russia's Samara region, a major Roscosmos enterprise involved in electronics production.

"Today, there are new significant results from our deep strikes. In Russia's Samara region, one of the key enterprises within Roscosmos - the Progress Center, which was involved, among other things, in electronics production - was hit. Flamingo missiles were us...