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Ukraine has successfully deployed a drone near the northern Russian city of St Petersburg, a Ukrainian minister said on Thursday, as Moscow and Kiev fired projectiles across each other’s borders. “Yes, this night we hit a target, and this piece flew exactly 1,250 kilometres,” Oleksandr Kamyshin, the industry minister responsible for armaments, said during a public discussion at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. The drone used was produced in Ukraine and cost the equivalent of just over €320 ($348), he told the Interfax-Ukraine news agency. Ukrainian media had pre…