Ukraine said its new attack drones can hit targets 600 miles inside Russia and appeared to use them right away [Video]

Ukraine said it made attack drones that can fly more than 620 miles — just before Russia reported drone attacks on factories around 620 miles from Ukraine’s border.

Ukraine’s Digital Transformation Minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, told German news outlet Welt that Ukraine had developed drone models that can fly more than 1,000 kilometers (620 miles).

Soon after, authorities in Russia reported attacks at sites in Tatarstan, which is around 620 miles from the closest point in Ukraine.

The Head of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, said on Telegram that “drone attacks took place against factories in Tatarstan at Yelabuga and Nizhnekamsk,” Agence France-Presse reported.

According to Reuters, Nizhnekamsk is home to Russia’s third-largest oil refinery, which processes about 155,000 barrels of crude refining per day.

Close to Yelabuga are chemical and mechanical engineering stores and metal treatment factories, AFP reported. An intelligence source told Reuters that Ukrainian-made drones hit a facility producing long-range “Shahed” attack drones.

Minnikhanov said the attacks …