Zelensky Confirms Ukraine Deployed Domestically Produced Pelican Missile in Mass Overnight Strike on Moscow and Voronezh

President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukrainian forces used the domestically produced Pelican ballistic missile in combat for the first time overnight, alongside Flamingo cruise missiles and drone systems including FP-1, RZ-100, MICH-2000, Palianytsia, Vendetta, Liutyi, Bars and Sichen, in a strike on the Moscow and Voronezh regions 123. Zelensky, who did not specify Pelican's weapon type, said the strikes hit one of Russia's key oil industry facilities and a logistics target in Moscow Oblast, plus an industrial facility in Voronezh Oblast, with the operation involving the SBU, Special Operations Forces, Defense Intelligence and the Foreign Intelligence Service 12. RBC-Ukraine subsequently cited sources disputing that framing, saying Pelican is actually an aircraft-type drone rather than the FP-7 ballistic missile that outlets had widely assumed based on Fire Point's April trademark filing, meaning Ukraine's first combat use of a domestic ballistic missile is unconfirmed. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said the city faced its largest drone attack to date, claiming over 1,600 drones were intercepted with 450 aimed at Moscow, and reported a fire at the Moscow oil refinery in Kapotnya; regional officials said the attack killed two people 4. Radio NV analyst Vasyl Pekhno separately noted the Pelican's estimated 350-kilometer range would not reach Moscow directly; it may instead have targeted air defense sites to let other systems penetrate, a scenario he called speculative 24.