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"comfortable" sounds like a significant exaggeration here.
"What's the range of the Vampires? Already 22 kilometres, and it will increase. FPV drones already fly 12 kilometres. And what's the cost of all this? A reusable drone costs about the same as one missile for an anti-tank guided missile. Plus, you're sitting several kilometres away, somewhere tucked away in a safe place," adds the Vampire team.
There are drones that have already completed 200–250 missions. This mainly involves a takeoff, flights at 5–7 kilometres, hitting targets behind the enemy lines, planting mines and air support during assault operations.
Everything has been remotely mined by attack drones, cutting off the supply routes to their positions. And then, the position is gradually lost by itself: either the Russians are all killed by drones, or they flee on their own.
With Nemesis alone, 158 tanks were destroyed, as well as a slew of other equipment and structures such as warehouses and bases. We counted and discovered that for every dollar spent on our drone, US$50 worth of equipment is destroyed. A ratio of 1 to 50 is extremely good," the Nemesis team explains.
2.3 With more than half Ukraine’s power generation capacity knocked out many wonder how they will get through the winter
Since the onset of the war Russia has severely crippled Ukraine's electricity generation capability, destroying over 60% of the nation's energy production capacity. This has reduced Ukraine's generation from 55 GW to a mere 20 GW, according to Ukrainian officials. One anonymous official reportedly told the FT that Ukrainians should prepare for "life in the cold and the dark" this winter.
The most recent Russian missile attacks have further compounded the damage, eliminating 9.2 GW of capacity since March 2024 alone. The June 1 bombing was particularly devastating, causing the loss of 1.2 GW of generation and inflicting severe damage on critical infrastructure, including the gas transportation system essential for underground storage facilities in western Ukraine. This damage threatens not only domestic energy supply but also gas exports to the EU.
In response, Ukrainian energy companies have implemented scheduled blackouts to limit electricity consumption. As of June 6, emergency outages have been imposed in 12 oblasts: Kharkiv, Sumy, Kyiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Rivne, Volyn, Lviv, Odesa, Zaporizhzhia and Kirovohrad. Ukrenergo, the national power company, initiated these measures after consumption limits were exceeded on June 5.
Ukraine's energy sector has a total capacity of approximately 53 GW, with about half (28 GW) derived from thermal power plants (TPPs). The remainder of the capacity comes from nuclear and renewable sources, which have largely escaped Russian attacks.
That might be just about to change. The director of Ukraine’s biggest power company DTEK Dmytro Sakharuk reported during the KIEF Talks that since
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