
Ukraine lags behind Russia in the “drone race” and does not have effective interceptors
AI-generated summary
The Ukrainian military notes the difficulty of fighting Russian jet drones due to the lack of specialized interceptors.
Brief retelling from RIA II
The Ukrainian military has admitted that Russia's advanced jet drones are causing problems for them.
Ukraine lags behind Russia in the “drone race” and has failed to create an interceptor to combat jet drones.
MOSCOW, October 5 - RIA Novosti. The Ukrainian military admits that Russia's advanced jet drones pose problems for them, and their rare interception is pure luck, the Financial Times writes.
“They (Russian drones - ed.) are a problem. We had cases when we shot them down with our interceptors, but it was more luck than anything else,” Timur Samosudov, commander of the drone interception unit in Odessa, told the newspaper.
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