{"id":1395181,"date":"2026-05-20T10:32:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/scaling-up-terror-russia-enlists-students-and-minors-to-produce-drones\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:32:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:32:52","slug":"scaling-up-terror-russia-enlists-students-and-minors-to-produce-drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/scaling-up-terror-russia-enlists-students-and-minors-to-produce-drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Scaling up terror: Russia enlists students and minors to produce drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Russian Federation is demonstrating a rapid increase in its capacity to manufacture air attack weapons, ignoring international sanctions. The enemy is not only finding ways to supply components, but also using specific labor resources to assemble drones.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VfkmUd8LEd0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was stated<\/a> by military analyst and former SBU employee Ivan Stupak, analyzing the ability of the occupiers to maintain the intensity of shelling of Ukrainian infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Over the 25th year, 55 thousand drones have flown over Ukraine. Over the entire war, about 7 thousand various missiles have been launched. This is really a lot,&#8221; the studio guest noted.<\/p>\n<p> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VfkmUd8LEd0<\/p>\n\t\t<aside class=\"shortcode-also\" data-title=\"Read also\" >\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/rebellion-in-the-kremlin-are-russians-capable-of-organized-resistance\/\">Rebellion in the Kremlin: Are Russians capable of organized resistance?<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\n<p> According to him, the aggressor managed to make a significant technological leap. If at the beginning of 2025 the monthly number of launches was about 2,500 units, then later this figure increased to 6,500. To achieve such volumes, the enemy uses forced labor of students of polytechnic institutions and minors, the analyst explains.<\/p>\n<p> The vast majority of these attacks have a clear military focus: exhausting Ukrainian air defense and searching for locations of domestic defense enterprises, so despite isolated hits, Ukrainian manufacturers manage to move their facilities to safe zones, said Ivan Stupak.<\/p>\n<p> Recall that <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/rosiia-naroshchuie-armiiu-droniv-ta-kopiiuie-rishennia-ukrainy-syrskyy\/\">Russia plans to significantly increase the production of FPV drones in 2026<\/a> , while simultaneously increasing units to combat Ukrainian drones. At the same time, the Ukrainian Defense Forces continue to maintain their superiority in the use of FPV drones and increase the effectiveness of strikes against the enemy.<\/p>\n<p> In addition, Russia is modernizing the tactics of using drones in the war against Ukraine. The <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/fpv-drony-teper-na-herberakh-rosiia-vyprobovuie-novu-taktyku\/\">Gerber UAV was first used as a carrier of an FPV drone<\/a> . Later it became known that such drones began to appear in Ukraine. The Ministry of Defense <a href=\"https:\/\/prm.ua\/herbery-teper-mozhut-nesty-boyovyy-zariad\/\">called on Ukrainians to be vigilant<\/a> , not to touch suspicious objects and, if necessary, call specialists, as well as inform children about the danger.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian Federation is demonstrating a rapid increase in its capacity to manufacture air attack weapons, ignoring international sanctions. The enemy is not only finding ways to supply components, but also using specific labor resources to assemble drones. This was stated by military analyst and former SBU employee Ivan Stupak, analyzing the ability of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1395176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1395181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1395176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}