Russia – Putin: We will decuple drone production this year, reaching 1.4 million

Vladimir Putin announced contiguous that Russia is expanding its accumulation of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) astir tenfold, reaching 1.4 cardinal this twelvemonth to guarantee the triumph of the Russian equipped forces successful Ukraine.

“Overall, astir 140,000 unmanned aerial vehicles of assorted types were delivered to the equipped forces successful 2023,” Putin said. “This year, drone accumulation is planned to summation significantly. To beryllium much precise, astir 10 times.”

“Whoever responds much rapidly to these requirements connected the battlefield wins,” Putin said astatine a gathering successful St. Petersburg regarding the improvement of drone production.

Since Russia sent tens of thousands of soldiers to Ukraine successful February 2022, the warfare has mostly been characterized by artillery and drone strikes on a heavy fortified 1,000-kilometer front, involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

Both Russia and Ukraine person purchased drones from overseas and accrued their ain accumulation to onslaught a scope of targets, specified arsenic artillery and ammunition depots, vigor infrastructure, and warships.