Ukrainian ballistic missiles strike Moscow: Ukrainian startup taking missile fight deep into Russia
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This fall, Moscow will be hit by Ukrainian-made ballistic missiles, Fire Point chief designer and co-owner Denis Shtilerman stated in an interview with Dmitry Gordon.
There will be strikes on Moscow in the fall. Our task now is to test the engine, to ensure that nothing structurally is falling apart, that the payload is holding up, and that the engine is functioning properly. Then we'll conduct a test flight, ensure that everything is working as planned, and then flights to Russian territory will begin," he said.
Shtilerman emphasized that the military will determine where to strike, but, in his opinion, "of course, these will be some significant targets right away." Answering the question of when our first ballistic missile would fly to Moscow, he said: “Autumn, autumn of this year.”
At the same time, Shtilerman did not specify in which month these strikes are possible.
As reported, Shtilerman previously stated that a Ukrainian ballistic missile with a range of up to 850 km would be ready by mid-2026. He stated that such missiles have many advantages over the Russian Iskander missiles.
He emphasized that they fly further, carry more, are cheaper, and reach their target one and a half times faster than the Iskander. The designer believes that "tiny supplies" of American and European aid have enabled Russia to cope with their weapons.
Ukraine’s leading arms company is manufacturing about 100 long-range Flamingo cruise missiles a month, a rate able to support an enduring campaign of deep strike against targets hundreds of miles inside Russia.
Fire Point is also making FP-1 and FP-2 fixed-wing drones at a rate of “hundreds per day”, according to chief executive Iryna Terekh. The startup’s development from its postwar foundation in 2022 demonstrates the rapid maturing of Ukraine’s homegrown defence industry, finally giving its military the long-range capabilities denied by the west earlier in the conflict.
“I’m not aware of any deep strike attack that was happening in the past few months that was not involving our products,” Terekh said. Missile and drone attacks using Fire Point munitions were taking place at a daily rate of “on average five to 15”.
Flamingo missiles, which can carry 1,150kg of explosive, enough to penetrate concrete walls, were used to attack a Russian military components factory at Cheboksary in June, more than 600 miles from Kharkiv, in Ukraine’s north-east.
Their actual flight distance, Terekh said, was among “the longest recorded in the history of cruise missile missions”, at about 1,800km because of the complexity of the flight path. Each Flamingo costs a little under $600,000, the chief executive said, cheaper than a US Tomahawk, which cost approximately $3.5m.
The lighter FP-1 drones in particular, which have a range of more than 1,000 miles, are used to attack less well defended Russian oil refineries in a campaign that has cut their production by 20% and led to long queues at petrol pumps. They cost between $55,000 and $75,000, Terekh added.
Fire Point now operates from 83 factories inside Ukraine, plus another in Denmark, employing 6,000 people, up from 3,500 late last year, according to Terekh. The Guardian visited one manufacturing site last December, where dozens of men were assembling the plywood, plastic and carbon fibre structures into whole drones.
“What we’re seeing now is the result of several years of effort by the Ukrainian side,” said Ben Hodges, a former general who commanded the US army in Europe. “They can not only reach deep inside Russia with precision and get past Russian air defences, their weapons also carry a payload big enough to achieve effect.”
The result is an evolution in the long-running war, where Ukraine is closing in on Russia’s ability to conduct deadly long-range attacks. Each month Russia produces up to 70 air-launched Kh-101 cruise missiles, 25 sea-launched Kalibrs, according to Ukrainian estimates, plus a further 60 Iskander M ballistic missiles.
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