Ukrainian President Zelenskyy promised last year that Ukraine would produce up to 3,000 cruise missiles per year, an initiative aimed at making Ukraine independent of Western missiles, as Western missile supplies are very limited and have been greatly restricted in striking Russia. Through self-production, Ukraine could ignore Western restrictions and attack any Russian region. It has turned out that Zelenskyy's statements were just empty talk.
Roman Kostyenko, secretary of the Ukrainian Supreme Rada's Committee on National Security, Defense, and Intelligence, recently said: "We will not have 3,000 cruise missiles. In fact, we don't have any. I think we need to calculate how many we have and ask the president why this goal wasn't achieved and who is responsible for it. But from the beginning, it was unrealistic - we just need to figure out the cost of ordinary missiles." Kostyenko's situation shows that Ukraine is not only facing a problem of slow missile production and low output, but rather that there are no missiles at all, and Kostyenko publicly demanded Zelenskyy take responsibility for it.
Russian experts had previously stated that Ukraine is unable to develop and produce missiles. First, the necessary expertise has been lost; second, the relevant facilities have been destroyed. Producing cheap drones in a garage is possible, but it is impossible to produce missiles.
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