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MOSCOW, Aug 13 The U.S. is not mass-producing the cheap drones Ukraine needs, says Austin Gray, a former U.S. Navy intelligence officer who now works at the factory for the production of drones.
«US companies are not mass-producing the cheap disposable drones that Ukrainian forces need,» Gray wrote in the Wall Street Journal.
According to this publication, the starting price of advanced American drones is about 16 thousand dollars.
As Gray notes, a number of US companies have stopped testing drones in Ukraine because the conditions on the battlefield are too difficult for them to work normally.
Russia has previously sent a note to NATO countries because of the supply of weapons to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia. The Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation stated that the NATO countries are «playing with fire» by supplying weapons to Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov noted that pumping Ukraine with weapons from the West does not contribute to the success of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and will have a negative effect. Lavrov stated that the US and NATO are directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine, «including not only the supply of weapons, but also the training of personnel … in the UK, Germany, Italy and other countries.»