MOSCOW, December 26. /TASS/. Ukraine’s armed forces will have to retreat unless the authorities find a way to establish the production of combat drones in the country, said Maria Berlinskaya, who heads the Ukrainian Center for Aerial Reconnaissance.
"Now, the bulk of our equipment gets destroyed by Russian attack drones <...>. Unless we start looking a few steps ahead, we will have to retreat, that’s for sure," she told a YouTube broadcast of an interview with the Ukrainska Pravda online media outlet.
According to the activist, it’s exactly drones that are a "game-changer" on the battlefield, however, the Ukrainian leadership was not ready for that technologically, while Russia is launching the production proactively.
On December 19, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky announced plans at a news conference to produce 1 mln of drones in the country in 2024. Berlinskaya said he meant "the simplest FPV drones."