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Zelenskiy touts new 'drone missile', calls Putin 'sick old man'

Ukrainian Independence Day celebrations in Kyiv

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy appears on a screen as he delivers a speech during the country's Independence Day celebrations in Kyiv Saturday.

KYIV � President Volodymyr Zelenskiy touted a newly developed Ukrainian "drone missile" on Saturday that he said would take the war back to Russia and scornfully derided Russia's Vladimir Putin as a "sick old man from Red Square."

As Ukraine marked 33 years of post-Soviet independence, Zelenskiy said the new weapon, Palianytsia, was faster and more powerful than the domestically made drones that Kyiv has so far used to fight back against Russia, striking its oil refineries and military airfields.



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