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⚡️Russ increasingly uses drones due to lack of high-precision missiles - @TheStudyofWar

#AF_RF are forced to increasingly use drones to attack Ukrainian critical infrastructure as they run out of stocks of precision-guided missiles, /1

analysts at the Institute for the Study of War say.

On the night of December 29-30, #AF_RF launched 16 Shahed-131 and -136 drones at targets in Ukraine. According to the Air Force Command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Ukrainian air defense systems shot down all these drones./2

The drone attacks came after a massive series of Russian missile and drone strikes on Ukraine's critical infrastructure on December 29, during which #AF_RF launched 23 drones, most of which were Shaheds.

ISW notes that the use by the Russian military of 39 drones over /3

the past two days, the use of 30 Shahed-131 and Shahed-136 drones on the night of December 18-19, and the use of 13 Shahed drones on December 14 indicate a significant an increase in the number of recent cases of the use of these systems by Russian troops in Ukraine.
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Russian forces have likely increased the pace of drone attacks even further in an attempt to support their campaign against Ukraine's critical infrastructure, even though their stockpiles of precision-guided missiles are likely depleted./5

The Russian military will likely continue to use an increasing number of these systems to attack civilian targets in Ukraine in a false attempt to break the Ukrainian will to fight."
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