Ukraine's Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) says its long-range drones can now travel up to 3,500 kilometers, a reach that would place every region of European Russia — and targets as far east as Krasnoyarsk in Siberia — inside the strike envelope of Kyiv's deep-strike campaign in Russia's war on Ukraine.
The claim came from a HUR operator using the call sign "Vector," who leads a long-range drone group and spoke to Ukraine's 24 Kanal. "Any territory of Russia up to the Urals is reachable for us," he said, adding that Ukrainian unmanned aircraft that once struggled to fly 1,000 kilometers are now launched in the hundreds.
Two drones doing the work of missiles
The backbone of the effort, Vector said, is the "Liutyi," the first Ukrainian deep-strike drone to fly past 1,000 kilometers on a routine basis. Crews said the Liutyi now ranges 1,500 to 1,700 kilometers depending on wind and carries a warhead of 50 to 70 kilograms.
A newer system, the jet-powered "Peklo," behaves more like a cruise missile. An operator using the call sign "Logist" said the drone moves at 700 to 1,000 kilometers per hour and can reach Moscow, roughly 800 kilometers away, with enough precision to enter the window of a targeted building.
Crews also fly warhead-free decoy drones to saturate Russian air defenses, and said no two missions are alike, with new designs tested in the field before being scaled across other Ukrainian units.
Russia's layered defenses "broken"
HUR operators described a planning cycle that begins with mapping Russian air defenses — including Pantsir and Tor systems — and electronic-warfare coverage, then converting an approved tactical objective into a flight plan loaded onto the drone.
Two years ago, Vector said, Russia's echeloned defense made strikes far harder. Now, he argued, that layering is "broken," leaving wide windows and corridors through which hundreds of drones reach their targets faster than Moscow can rebuild its networks.
The interview surfaced as Russia's deep rear absorbed an unprecedented warning. On 29 May 2026, authorities issued a missile-danger alert across the entire Ural Federal District for the first time since the full-scale invasion began, reaching the Yamal Peninsula more than 2,000 kilometers from Ukraine.
A claim that outruns the confirmed record
The 3,500-kilometer figure remains a capability claim rather than a demonstrated strike. Ukraine's confirmed long-range record stands at roughly 1,750 kilometers — the SBU's February 2026 attack on the Ukhta refinery in Russia's Komi Republic. A verified 3,500-kilometer strike would carry Ukrainian drones nearly to Krasnoyarsk, deep in Siberia.
