"Wall Street Journal" ; (WSJ) published a report on Ukraine's new industry to produce drones that are used to strike Russian territory.
According to the publication, the Ukrainian authorities cannot use Western equipment to bomb Russian targets, so they rely on locally produced products.
As a result, many start-ups have appeared in Ukraine - relatively small companies that develop and manufacture combat drones for the Ukrainian military.
The authors write that this approach helps Ukraine resist a Russian invasion, but has its limitations, as Russia has put the entire economy on a military basis and uses hundreds of Iranian Shahed kamikaze drones combined with missiles. .
That is why Western experts quoted by the newspaper advise Kiev to determine which of the various models of drones are the most promising and to create mass production of them.
One of the newspaper's interlocutors identified 19 different models of Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles used for strikes against Russia, including balloons that drop grenades from high altitudes.
An unnamed Ukrainian intelligence official told the WSJ that only about 20 percent of drones reach their target -- mainly because of Russia's use of electronic warfare.
It is not known exactly how many drones Ukraine produces, but one company says it aims to increase production to about 20 percent by the middle of the year.