TASS, the state-owned press agency, put out an article this week playing down the threat posed by the missile, belittling it as being based on a design from a British firm — something the Ukrainians deny — and trying to undercut Ukraine’s technical prowess.
Terekh doesn’t agree. “We watched Russian reaction to our first missions and I can tell you the more successful the mission was, the more Russians tried to choke all publicity around it,” she said.
The Flamingo is now in serial production.
“By December, we will have many more of them,” Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told reporters on Wednesday, refusing to give more details about the weapon until “Ukraine could use hundreds of them.”
And Donald Trump seems to be more open to Ukraine hitting back.
In a social media post on Thursday, the U.S. president wrote: “It is very hard, if not impossible, to win a war without attacking an invaders country. It’s like a great team in sports that has a fantastic defense, but is not allowed to play offense.”