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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy commented on the large-scale overnight strikes on Moscow and the Moscow region, calling them a “fair response” to Russia’s continued attacks on Ukrainian cities and communities. According to Zelensky, the strikes demonstrated that even areas more than 500 kilometers from Ukraine’s border are no longer beyond the reach of Ukrainian drones and missiles. He said the attacks were meant to send a direct message to Vladimir Putin and the Russian leadership. “Our responses to the Russian prolongation of the war and strikes on our cities and communities are quite fair,” Zelensky wrote. “We are clearly telling the Russians: their state must end its war.” He also praised Ukrainian drone and missile developers, as well as the Security Service of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Defense Forces for the operation. The Ukrainian president added that Moscow’s heavy air defense concentration failed to fully protect the Russian capital from the strikes. Russian officials reportedly described the attack as one of the largest drone assaults on the Moscow region since the start of the full-scale war.