Ukrainian capital Kyiv was under concentrated Russian fire for nearly 10 hours, and Western media captured the scene of Kyiv being hit by Russian missiles and suicide drones at night. Most of the attacks were carried out by "Geranium-2" suicide drones, with only a few instances of KH-101 long-range cruise missiles and "Iskander" tactical missiles. Kyiv's air defense system has been completely overloaded and is unable to prevent the rampant attacks by Russia's cheap "Geranium-2" suicide drones.
The main targets of Russian bombing are still radio factories, machinery factories, military factories, and some warehouses in industrial areas of Kyiv. A shipyard located in the Ostrov-Rybarovsky district was also bombed.
It seems that Russia's production capacity for "Geranium-2" suicide drones has increased significantly. Western countries estimate that Russia will be able to organize a mass attack of 1,000 of these low-cost suicide drones by autumn. Currently, Ukraine is extremely short of air defense systems. Even if the United States continues to provide aid, it cannot withstand Russia's large-scale air attacks. Although Ukraine has used electronic warfare facilities with Western assistance to suppress Russian suicide drones, thereby reducing their accuracy, the "Geranium" suicide drones use inertial navigation combined with satellite navigation. When satellite navigation is interfered with, they can switch to inertial navigation as a backup, making it still relatively easy to target large fixed objectives such as factories.
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