(Dan Tri) – Ukrainian officials said that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used to attack Russian oil refineries have a range of more than 1,000km.
Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov (Photo: Getty).
Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mykhailo Fedorov said: `Most UAVs that attacked Russian oil refineries have a range of 700-1,000km. However, now we also have models with a range of more than 1,000km.
He said that in 2024, Ukraine is trying to increase long-range UAV production by 10 times last year.
Mr. Fedorov predicted that the first UAV models using artificial intelligence (AI) will appear on the battlefield by the end of 2024. However, he also admitted that: `Currently it is difficult to say which side will win.`
In recent weeks, Ukraine has increased UAV attacks on Russian oil refineries.
UAVs play an important role in the conflict lasting more than 2 years between Russia and Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently once again emphasized the importance of increasing domestic UAV production after setting a production target of 1 million units in 2024.
`War requires our defense industry to produce quickly and constantly innovate,` Mr. Zelensky said.
He emphasized further: `It is clear that drones in this war will be one of the words that will decide victory and it must be a Ukrainian word, Ukrainian drones, a victory for Ukraine. Ukraine.
In another development, the Russian Ministry of Defense said on April 1 that its air defense units intercepted 6 Ukrainian UAVs that tried to attack Russian territory.
On the same day, Ukrainian air force spokesman Illya Yevlash said that their air defense system shot down a Russian Forpost UAV.
Forpost is a UAV used for reconnaissance purposes, capable of reconnaissance at an altitude of 5,000m continuously for 16 hours.
Natalia Humeniuk, spokeswoman for the Southern Forces of Ukraine, said Russia is using this type of UAV more often after Ukrainian air defense systems shot down at least two Moscow A-50 reconnaissance aircraft.
`Over the past 24 hours, we detected more than 200 (Russian) reconnaissance UAVs in the area under our responsibility from Odessa to Zaporizhia. They are clearly using these UAVs to compensate for the A-
