Ukraine's new long-range cruise missile might be named after a manufacturing mishap, but its developers say it will be able to pack a punch to Russia thousands of kilometers from Ukrainian soil.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier this month Kyiv was planning to mass-produce the missile, dubbed the Flamingo, this winter.

Kyiv has pushed its domestic defense industry hard to keep up with the demands of three-and-a-half years of full-scale war with Russia, an adversary with its own formidable industrial capacity, plus a helping hand with replenishing its missile stocks from allies like North Korea.

The conflict has put a heavy emphasis on often cheap drones, but both sides have consistently used sophisticated, long-range missiles to strike across both the front line in U

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