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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Maira Butt

How Ukraine is trying to beat Russia at its own game with massive drone strike campaign

In 2023, a year into Russia’s unprecedented invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv was producing around 800,000 drones a year. By 2024, that number had more than doubled to two million.

Fast forward to last month – when President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the country was now churning out more than 10 million units annually with plans to double that number to 20 million by this time next year.

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