The strikes targeted a site where employees helped assemble up to 1,000 UAVs monthly, officials claim.
Russian forces have struck military-industrial enterprises in Kiev that produce hundreds of drones per month, and fuel dumps in Odessa Region used by the Ukrainian army, the Defense Ministry reports.
Among the targets in Kiev was an industrial enterprise manufacturing drones of various types, including their components, such as fuselages, electronic parts, navigation equipment, optics, and batteries.
The strikes also hit a separate assembly and storage site in southwestern Kiev where specialists from a US-Ukrainian company were involved in monthly production of up to 1,000 drones of various types, including attack drones and reconnaissance drones.
The AQ-400 is a kamikaze drone with a plywood fuselage, with a declared range of up to 750 km and a warhead of around 40 kg.
It is designed and built by the Ukrainian company Terminal Autonomy, which was founded in mid-2022 by veterans of the British and Australian militaries and a Ukrainian engineer.
In Odessa Region, the strikes destroyed fuel and lubricant storage tanks at the port of Chernomorsk that were used to supply the Ukrainian army.
