The Economist revealed that Ukraine is building its own Kalibr
Since the beginning of the war, the Russian Federation has launched hundreds of missile strikes against Ukraine. Most of them were carried out with cruise missiles, and one of the main examples of this Russian weapon is the Kalibr.
The Ukrainian defence industry is working on developing its own cruise missile similar to the Russian Kalibras and the Kh-101. The Economist has quoted its own sources as saying so.
The journalists point to a number of successful strikes by the Ukrainian side against Russian military facilities and enterprises of the military-industrial complex. At the same time, their high accuracy is noted. It is emphasised that such success of Ukrainian operations has already started to cause panic in the Russian Federation and they have stopped neglecting sirens there. In addition, if at the beginning of the full-scale war Russian ships stood in threatening proximity to Odessa, today they almost never enter the north-western part of the Black Sea.
The Economist notes that destroying ships, headquarters and weapons depots in Crimea is not an end in itself for Kiev.
They are aids to two more important endeavours - weakening the Russians' military capabilities in the occupied south of Ukraine, where the AFU's land counteroffensive continues, and unblocking Ukraine's critical maritime trade," the publication writes.
The authors of the publication note that Ukraine has managed perfectly well to become a "mosquito fleet" and strike the enemy with special Ukrainian-made surface drones.
Ukraine's own Neptun missiles also proved themselves in this war when they destroyed the Russian Navy's flagship Moskva, but Kiev is working to further improve them," the publication points out.
It is noted that Ukraine at this time wants to get an analogue of the Russian "Kalibr" and Kh-101.
Security expert Anna Shelest told journalists that Ukraine will not have too much difficulty with this, as it was a "missile superpower" in the past and had several "crazy" missile projects.
They were mothballed due to lack of funding and sometimes due to deliberate sabotage. Now some of those projects have been shaken off the dust," she said.
The Economist points out that it usually takes several years to produce a missile, but the Ukrainians could be quicker to question some of the older designs.