Peklo
Ukraine's "Hell" — a jet-powered missile-drone, the faster sibling of Palianytsia. Built in under a year and already in serial production, it flies a mini-cruise-missile profile to hit Russian refineries, depots and airfields, and was used in the June 2026 Moscow oil-refinery strike.
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Ukraine's "Hell" — a jet-powered missile-drone that analysts treat as a miniature cruise missile, and the faster sibling of Palianytsia. Developed in under a year and already in serial production when it was unveiled, it flies a deep-strike profile against Russian refineries, depots and airfields — another piece of Ukraine's drive to build its own long-range arsenal rather than wait for Western permission.
Overview
Peklo (Пекло, "Hell") is a Ukrainian turbojet "missile-drone" — launched with a solid-fuel booster from a mobile platform, then cruising under jet power to hit stationary deep-strike targets (defence plants, fuel and oil facilities, depots, airfields) inside Russia. Built by Ukrainian Defence Industry (Ukroboronprom), it was unveiled by President Zelenskyy on 6 December 2024 — Ukraine's Armed Forces Day — already combat-proven and already in serial production. It is closely related to Palianytsia: near-identical in look and range, but the faster of the two (Wikipedia notes Peklo is "presumably based on" it). For BattlePolicy it is another node in Ukraine's sovereign deep-strike push, the affordable-mass strike family that also includes the FP-5 Flamingo and R-360 Neptune, and the mirror of Russia's jet Geran-3. One caveat up front: like its siblings it is a secretive program, so several figures are official-but-unverified or analyst inference.
Development
Work on Peklo began around August 2023 and reached the field in under a year and a half: by the 6 December 2024 unveiling it had already been used in combat five times and roughly 100 units had been produced in the prior three months. It is built largely (~70%) from domestic components, with the imported ~30% (notably the engine) a real production bottleneck — and notably the turbojet is interchangeable, so the design can run on whatever engine is available. By 2026 Peklo had been integrated into Ukraine's Defence Intelligence (DIU) operations and was reportedly used in the June 2026 strike on a Moscow oil refinery.
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