Russian Iskander missiles strike one of Ukraine's biggest drone productions in Kyiv

The Russian Armed Forces struck one of Ukraine's largest FPV drone (First-Person View) production facilities. The strike took place early in the morning on February 12, Mash Telegram channel said.

A massive missile strike wiped out a classified production facility belonging to Stream Techno, a company responsible for the mass assembly and supply of lightweight UAVs to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

The geolocation of the factory was reportedly leaked by hackers from the Special Network Operations Service, who hacked company employees' computers, gaining access to personal data of assembly workers, production capacity details, and the exact location and coordinates of the plant.

Russia launches record number of Iskander missiles at Kyiv

According to Military Chronicle Telegram channel, the number of Iskander missile strikes on the night of February 12 set a record for the entire period of the special military operation. 

On the night of February 11, Russia also carried out a massive missile strike on Ukrainian military facilities. The Ukrainian Air Force reported that cruise missiles, presumably Kalibr, were launched from the Black Sea. Military Chronicle also reported that Russian Tu-95MS bombers launched cruise missiles, and that Russian forces used X-69 and Iskander missiles in the strike.

Ukraine Reports Severe Drone Shortage

Dmitry Khasapov, head of Ukrainian drone manufacturer Urkspecsystems, said that Ukraine was facing a massive shortage of drones, The Financial Times reports. Speaking at a defense industry forum in Kyiv, Khasapov revealed that the Ukrainian forces were in need of more drones, whereas the government had no sufficient funds for their procurement.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that the government is closely monitoring efforts to supply the military with drones.

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The 9K720 Iskander (NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone) is a Russian mobile short-range ballistic missile system. It has a range of 500 kilometres (270 nmi; 310 mi). It was intended to replace the OTR-21 Tochka in the Russian military by 2020. The Iskander has several different conventional warheads, including a cluster munitions warhead, a fuel–air explosive enhanced-blast warhead, a high-explosive fragmentation warhead, an earth penetrator for bunker busting and an electromagnetic pulse device for anti-radar missions. The missile can also carry nuclear warheads. In September 2017, the KB Mashinostroyeniya (KBM) general designer Valery M. Kashin said that there were at least seven types of missiles (and "perhaps more") for Iskander, including one cruise missile.