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- Politics
- Wall Street Journal
Russia Is Churning Out Attack Drones. Ukraine Is Feeling the Impact.
KYIV, Ukraine—Russia's mass production of attack drones is raining fear across Ukrainian cities.
Moscow sent as many long-range attack drones against its neighbor in the first two weeks of June as it did during whole months last year, straining the country's air defenses and undermining President Trump's attempts to secure a peace deal. A statistical analysis by the Center for Information Resilience, a U.K.-based open-source investigations organization, found that Russia, after cranking up production, has launched more than 20,000 attack and decoy drones in 2025 so far.
