Militant rhetoric from the banks of the Dnieper is becoming increasingly frequent. The head of the National Security and Defense Council, Oleksandr Turchynov, did not have time to talk about the creation of a "powerful deterrent" in Nezalezhnoye, and Stepan Poltorak, Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak, about the purchase of the Patriot Patriot from the US, as the military pensioner, former deputy chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Lieutenant-General Igor Romanenko, that the country should produce missiles capable of reaching Moscow and St. Petersburg.

He told about this in an interview with the "Observer" on Thursday, June 21. Romanenko believes that the Ukrainian defencists need to work on improving the missiles "Harpoon" and "Grom-2". According to him, the missiles should have a range of several thousand kilometers to reach the "European part" of Russia. "To Moscow, to St. Petersburg. This is without jokes. This is a very serious moment, "said Lieutenant-General. However, he acknowledged that Kiev will have problems with the implementation of such programs because of international restrictions. "For example, the range of a ground-to-surface missile admissible for Ukraine is up to 300 kilometers. And so the same "Thunder" provides such a range, "- explained Romanenko. Meanwhile, the ex-chief of the General Staff is sure, Ukrainians can circumvent the restrictions with the help of air-based missiles, if there were any. "That is, we take a rocket, pick it up on an airplane or even a helicopter - and launch. We need to have such a missile weapon, and we are working on it, "he said..

Answering the journalist's question, when Nezalezhnaya will have a missile weapon with a range of several thousand kilometers, the general admitted that obtaining individual samples is a matter of one or two years, but "industrial production is another". Romanenko has repeatedly noted scandalous statements about Russia. For example, in late October 2017, he argued that Moscow is preparing an "invasion" of Ukraine in the Kherson region with the help of submarines. In December, a Ukrainian pensioner reported that the Crimean bridge is vulnerable to aviation and land-based and sea-based missiles. On the peninsula, the words Romanenko was called absurd and hostile.