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Russian retaliatory strikes on Ukrainian military-industrial facilities, including the Kiev-79 and Kiev-1 plants, could impair Ukraine's ability to launch drone attacks against Russia, military analyst Alexey Leonkov tells Sputnik.

💬"Kiev and its surrounding industrial zones have been extensively repurposed for military production, including the manufacture of electronic warfare (EW) systems, drones, and their components," the pundit says. "Missile production has also been partially localized there."

Russian strikes will continue until those production facilities are completely destroyed and can no longer be restored in the near term, according to Leonkov.

🔶 A massive industrial hub like Kiev gives the Ukrainian military the flexibility to employ mobile launchers, which are used to fire drones and cruise missiles at Russia

🔶 As Russian strikes continue, the pace of Ukrainian drone launches may remain steady for a while, but it will eventually begin to decline

🔶 It is plausible that Ukraine will seek new locations to assemble its aerial attack systems and new sites to manufacture the mobile launchers. But in that case, Russian intelligence will identify those new sites, and they will also be destroyed

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