Zelensky reveals that Ukraine's new long-range missile that can hit Moscow has passed tests and is ready for use

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has revealed that Ukraine has successfully tested its new "Made in Ukraine" missile called Long Neptune, with a range of 1,000 kilometers.

This puts the Russian capital Moscow within its range, with Zelensky saying Kiev has had 'significant results' in its missile program aimed at ensuring its security against the threat of Vladimir Putin.

"Long Neptun has been successfully tested and used in combat. A new Ukrainian missile, an accurate hit. The range is a thousand kilometers," he said, reports the Telegraph.

"Thank you to the developers, manufacturers and our army. We continue to work to ensure the security of Ukraine," the Ukrainian president said, among other things.

The Ukrainian channel Exilenova+ on Telegram suggested that Friday's dramatic strike on the Tuapse oil refinery may have been from the new Neptune, which is a development of the earlier version of the weapon that sank Putin's Black Sea Fleet ship, the Moskva, in 2022.

"There is an assumption that it was [young] Neptune," the Telegram said.

Ten explosions were heard when the strike occurred. However, there was no official confirmation, and a missile strike – rather than a long-range drone – could have caused far more chaos.

However, the Tuapse refinery, a major supplier of Russian military machinery, was still burning 36 hours after it was hit, as seen in dramatic footage posted on social media.

The refinery is just 55 miles from Putin's €1.5 billion palace on a cliff in Gelendzhik on the Black Sea, and the strike was a warning to him.

Another devastating blow came on Friday, when Ukraine razed the local history museum in Sudzha shortly after the Kursk region city fell back into Russian hands.

It was not clear whether this could have been a hit with Long Neptune.

But there was also a claim in January that the new version of Neptune had destroyed a Russian drone warehouse in the village of Chaltyr, in the Rostov region.

Today's announcement about Neptune comes amid reports that the new government in Germany under incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz is likely to approve the deployment of long-range Taurus missiles – each costing up to 1.5 million euros – in Ukraine.

It has twice the range of the British Storm Shadow missile, which Ukraine has not used in recent weeks.

The long-range Neptune is manufactured by the manufacturer Luch Design Bureau.

The weapon was originally designed as an anti-ship missile, but has been adapted during the war to hit ground targets, and now to strike at a long distance. /Telegraph