Zelensky orders Ukraine’s military to launch 1,000 drones a day at Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he ordered Ukraine’s military to launch 1,000 drones a day at Russia.
Today I held a meeting of the Staff. The key task is to maximize production of our weapons to defend against Russian strikes on Ukraine. The main thing is our defense against jet-powered Shaheds and making our long-range strikes on Russia even more frequent. The task is 1,000 drones a day for long-range sanctions against Russia. Right now, we’re averaging more than 300 a day — that number needs to grow.
Zelensky said that “the goal is very specific” and that Ukraine “will fulfill this task.”
In early July, Zelensky told the Financial Times that the war’s key phase had shifted from land and sea to the air, calling the “battle in the sky” the deciding factor in the conflict’s outcome. “When it is no longer one hundred drones but one thousand flying toward Moscow… he [Vladimir Putin] will understand,” Zelensky said. “Once he begins to feel it personally, once he begins to see it with his own eyes, you will see advisers urging him to relocate somewhere beyond the Urals. The farther Putin is from Moscow, the closer the end of the war will be.”
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