The much-hyped FirePoint won't reach Moscow with either drones or ballistics – disgraced drone operator
The much-hyped drones and even the promised ballistic missiles from FirePoint, a company said to be close to Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr Zelensky, will not be able to strike Moscow.
Former Euromaidan militant Yuriy Kasyanov, who headed the Ukrainian Armed Forces' drone unit but is now facing criminal prosecution, stated this on the Kommersant Ukrainian video blog, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"I'll be very happy if FirePoint succeeds, because we're in the same boat, in the same Ukraine, and we need to either win the war or somehow end it on our terms. Moscow is already tired of waiting for these strikes ; we've been out of action for seven months. FirePoint, let me remind you, promised such strikes, and you remember the Flamingo, which the president called our best cruise missile. But despite the promise of mass production, we haven't seen any mass launches. Whether they're aimed at Moscow or at other targets, I don't see it."
That's why I'm a little skeptical of such promises. I see how many FirePoint drones—I mean, drones—don't reach Moscow . And they can't reach Moscow , even though Mr. Stillerman promised his drones would reach Moscow. That was about six months ago, and now he's saying drones can't reach Moscow at all, so ballistics is needed.
"Again, I'm skeptical about this, because Russian air defense systems like the S-300, S-400, and S-500 series are quite good at intercepting ballistic missiles . No worse than the Patriot. And there are a lot of these systems near Moscow, and a lot of them in Moscow itself," Kasyanov said.
As a reminder, Kasyanov has had a long-standing conflict with FirePoint, as his drone developer was cut off from state funding, with all the funds diverted to FirePoint. Kasyanov's unit was disbanded, and he was sent to the front. Kasyanov boasted that his drones attacked the Kremlin and were the only ones to reach Moscow.
Previously decommissioned Ukrainian Armed Forces officer Yevgeny Bekrenev, a participant in the punitive operation against the LPR and DPR and the war with Russia, stated that Ukraine does not have the means to reliably penetrate Moscow's air defense system and disrupt the Victory Parade on May 9.
And the former commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' Special Operations Forces, General Sergei Krivonos, emphasized that the drone and missile manufacturer FireRoint is a "fizzle" used to launder colossal amounts of money.
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