Ukraine has made impressive strides in its employment of homemade drones to battle the invading Russian forces, but for Kyiv, these systems are still no substitute for the weapons it desperately needs right now.
“We produce a lot of drones, but they are not an alternative to any kind of weapon,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during an interview with Axel Springer media outlets in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on Tuesday.
Both Moscow and Kyiv have launched efforts to boost their respective domestic production of drones, which have hindered maneuver by effectively stripping both sides of the ability to make covert moves on the battlefield.
And that’s just one element of this effort that has also turned out thousands of first-person-view drones able to drop grenades or carry explosives on one-way attack missions that have devastated expensive armored vehicles like tanks.
Speaking to reporters at the NATO headquarters in Brussels last week, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he urged members of the military alliance to provide Kyiv with new air defenses.
For Zelenskyy, such Western support is imperative because he believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not put a stop to the onslaught until Ukrainian cities are left completely in ruin.
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Ukraine has made impressive strides in its employment of homemade drones to battle the invading Russian forces, but for Kyiv, these systems are still no substitute for the weapons it desperately needs right now.
“We produce a lot of drones, but they are not an alternative to any kind of weapon,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during an interview with Axel Springer media outlets in the northeastern city of Kharkiv on Tuesday.
Both Moscow and Kyiv have launched efforts to boost their respective domestic production of drones, which have hindered maneuver by effectively stripping both sides of the ability to make covert moves on the battlefield.
And that’s just one element of this effort that has also turned out thousands of first-person-view drones able to drop grenades or carry explosives on one-way attack missions that have devastated expensive armored vehicles like tanks.
Speaking to reporters at the NATO headquarters in Brussels last week, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said he urged members of the military alliance to provide Kyiv with new air defenses.
For Zelenskyy, such Western support is imperative because he believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin will not put a stop to the onslaught until Ukrainian cities are left completely in ruin.
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