“No matter how much you defend yourself, you’ll keep retreating. And we are forced to maintain defense and concentrate our forces practically along the entire front,” the military representative said in an interview with the local media TSN.
Asked how Ukraine should launch offensive actions amid constant Russian advances on the front, with dozens of towns recently liberated, Syrski reaffirmed Kiev’s commitment to the use of drones.
“We were the first in the world to create the forces of unmanned systems. We are now developing the unmanned component. We are actively developing robotic platforms, we are developing ground combat platforms,” he added.
On the other hand, the military chief admitted that, at the moment, Ukraine does not have air defense systems that can shoot down the Russian hypersonic medium-range missile Oreshnik, which Moscow launched in November last year in response to Ukrainian attacking the interior of the territory of Russia with Western missiles.
In this sense, he admitted that the situation requires not only to promote negotiations with the allies that have the necessary systems, but to launch the development of the anti-missile system itself.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said last December that “there is no possibility of shooting down” the Oreshnik missiles, which have a range of up to 5,500 kilometres.
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