Russia's Putin calls for quick development of drone forces

(Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said connected Thursday that drones had played a large relation successful the struggle successful Ukraine and called for the accelerated improvement and deployment of abstracted drone forces wrong the military.

"We are presently creating unmanned systems troops arsenic a abstracted subdivision of the subject and we request to guarantee their accelerated and high-quality deployment and development," Russian quality agencies quoted him arsenic saying astatine a gathering connected arms development.

Drones person played a starring relation for some sides successful the much than three-year-old struggle pitting Moscow against Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has since the outbreak of the warfare successful February 2022 stressed the value of processing a home drone improvement and accumulation industry.

Putin told the 2nd time of the gathering that Russia was good alert however Ukraine was dealing with the issue.

"But connected the whole, I bash not judge we are lagging down connected anything," helium was quoted arsenic saying. "More to the point, it seems to maine we are bringing unneurotic bully acquisition with a presumption to creating conscionable specified forces."

Russian Defence Minister Andrei Belousov projected the instauration of a drone unit precocious past year, mounting a people day of the 3rd 4th of 2025.

Putin besides stressed processing aerial defences, which helium said had destroyed much than 80,000 targets during the struggle that Russia inactive calls a peculiar subject operation.

"In this respect, a caller authorities armaments programme indispensable guarantee the operation of a versatile aerial defence strategy susceptible of operating successful immoderate circumstances and efficiently striking aerial onslaught weapons, careless of their type," helium said.

On the opening time of the meeting, Putin called for owed attraction to beryllium paid to the atomic triad of land-based, sea-based and aircraft-launched weapons.

(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Nia Williams)