The Russians are unable to regularly attack Ukraine with the same intensity as on December 29, when they fired rockets at the country’s largest cities.
As analysts from the Institute for War Studies note, the current stock of missiles and drones, as well as the pace of production, do not allow Russia to regularly carry out attacks on Ukraine on such a large scale as that of December 29.
Russian missile stockpiles
At the same time, the Russians can attack Ukraine more consistently using Shahed attack drones. In their daily report, US experts also cited statistics on the production of new missiles by the Russian Federation, which were presented on November 6 by the representative of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Vadym Skibitsky. According to him, the Russians produced 115 highly accurate long-range missiles in October.
In November, Russian forces had a total of 870 high-precision operational and strategic missiles in reserve, 285 of which were produced in August-November.
“Although Ukrainian officials recently reported that Russian forces have partially replenished their own stockpiles of cruise missiles, data cited by Skibinski on Russia’s missile stockpile and monthly production figures suggest that the Russian military is unable to conduct repeated large-scale missile attacks. , such as that of December 29. During this attack, the Russians fired five Dagger missiles at Ukraine – that’s how many of these types of systems the Russian Federation produces every month,” analysts explain.
At the same time, according to ISW, Russia is capable of producing its own Shahed-136/131 drones at a much faster pace. However, this will only be possible if the production of these devices is established and expanded in the Alabuz Special Economic Zone of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The Institute of Science and International Security reported on November 13 that even after a month-long production delay, the Alabuz-based company plans to produce 1,400 Shahed-136 drones between February and October 2023. And by September 2025 – 6,000 drones of this type.
Source: Do Rzeczy
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