On the night of July 4, another strike was launched on Kyiv, hitting one of the capital's military-industrial complex facilities. According to our source in the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this happened against the backdrop of a strategic decision to keep air defense missiles for the needs of the front.
As the interlocutor explains, the main priority of air defense is currently the contact line. It is there that Ukrainian defenders are confronting Russian aviation, which is trying to impose superiority in the sky. Under such conditions, anti-aircraft missiles are forced to be used as economically as possible in order to prevent breakthroughs on the front line.
This decision comes at a cost: a massive fire broke out in Kyiv overnight after a drone flew over a defense infrastructure facility. The source reports that it was one of the new enterprises that was developing drones and missile components.
Recall that since 2022, Kyiv has been considered a relatively safe place for the deployment of new production facilities, particularly in the military-industrial complex. Design bureaus, research laboratories, UAV test sites, and other sensitive facilities have been relocated here. But recent events are forcing us to radically reconsider this logic.
“The strategy will be changed,” the source says. According to him, in the near future, military-industrial complex facilities will begin to be dispersed and withdrawn from the capital to reduce the risks of simultaneous losses of people, technology, and infrastructure. Some functions will be transferred to the western regions, some to underground or mobile platforms.
This strike, the General Staff says, was yet another confirmation that Russian intelligence has become more active in relation to Ukrainian military enterprises. And now even Kyiv cannot be considered a full-fledged rear.
