Daily Memo: Russia’s Drone Push, Ukraine’s Overseas Production

Moscow is reportedly getting help from Beijing.

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Major expansion. Russia plans to produce 30,000 long-range drones in 2025, double what it made last year, according to Oleg Alexandrov, a spokesperson for Ukraine’s Foreign Intelligence Service. Alexandrov also said Moscow this year aims to make 2 million first-person view drones, the kind used in Ukraine’s attack on Russian aircraft last weekend. Chinese manufacturers, […]

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