Is Ukraine going to war? Invasion of Ukraine by a drone attack from the Russians in the 2022 Russian-Ukranian invasion
Dozens of Ukrainian companies are making drones that are important in the war. Many of the drones are doing research or carrying out attacks. Russia is being hit by attack drones from Ukraine.
The Russians are pressing an offensive against outnumbered and outgunned Ukrainian troops, which is being played by the drones.
That’s the kind of instant turnaround most militaries can only dream of — and it’s a new development for Ukraine as well. When the full-scale invasion of Russia took place in 2022, the air force of Ukraine was no match for Russia. The drone industry in Ukranian was small. The country also lacked long-range missiles. All of this meant the country had no way to carry out strikes across the border against Russian forces.
Ukraine’s nuclear missile program enables a third of the Russian Black Sea fleet to be sunk or disablened in Ukraine, says Kelly Grieco
“Most of the companies here are the companies that were created a couple of years ago, or even a couple of months ago,” Lokotkov said of those at the testing ground.
Ukraine was given permission by the President Biden to use missiles for strikes inside Russia. Previously, Ukraine was only able to use them against Russian forces inside Ukraine.
“It is breathtaking how fast the technology and the tactics have changed,” said Kelly Grieco, with the Stimson Center in Washington. She closely covers the air war in Ukraine and recently briefed the Pentagon.
Zelenskyy is setting high targets for the program. He says the country will build around 2 million this year, and plans to make around 4 million next year.
“We’re seeing these really small racing drones flying through trees and attacking the enemy,” she said. These long-range, one-way attack drones are allowing Ukraine to strike in Russian territory.
“Somehow, this country without a traditional navy has managed to sink or disable a third of Russia’s Black Sea fleet and force it to withdraw it further back in Russia,” said Grieco. “That is an amazing accomplishment.”
On the destruction of military bases in Murmansk: “We are going to reopen the door now,” says Stephen Biddle, an attorney at the U.S. military
Multiple reports have said that in recent months there have been attacks on military bases in Murmansk, a town more than 1,000 miles away from the Ukraine’s border.
He states that the U.S. approach has been to invest in expensive weapons that will be hard to find in large numbers. It’s a question of whether or not it’s really the right plan to have small numbers of very expensive and sophisticated weapons.
Stephen Biddle, a Columbia University professor who works with the US military, says that the approach that the Ukrainians have used in their defense policies is not the same as the US way of doing defense policy.
The missile was launched from southeastern Russia and was more than 800 miles away, according to the Air Force. The Ukrainian government said it was one of nine rockets fired at Dnipro, damaging an industrial facility, a rehabilitation center for people with disabilities and residential buildings. The Associated Press reported that two people were injured.
Serhii Nikolaienko, an energy worker, said that he wishes Ukrainian troops could use long-range weapons earlier in the war.
“If we had kicked the war in the teeth two years or two and a half years ago, I think there would have not have been such destruction” in Ukraine, he told NPR.