MOSCOW, November 15. /TASS/. Ukraine has launched serial production of unmanned surface vessels, or drone boats, the country’s deputy prime minister in charge of innovations, education, science and technology said.

"We are now actively scaling up the production of unmanned surface vessels. We have already launched serial production of them," said Mikhail Fyodorov, who doubles as the country’s minister of digital transformation.

The minister gave no details about the production’s potential output or the number of drone boats that have already been manufactured.

He also said that Ukraine has been designing new models of uncrewed surface vessels.

The Russian Defense Ministry has been regularly reporting about destroying Ukrainian drone boats in the Black Sea and striking facilities where they are stored or produced.