18:36 21-10-2025

Ukraine’s 3,000-Missile Production Plan Fails, Lawmaker Says

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Ukraine’s 2025 plan to produce 3,000 cruise missiles has failed, says MP Roman Kostenko, calling the goal unrealistic and urging Zelensky to explain the shortfall.

Ukraine’s ambitious missile production target announced by Vladimir Zelensky has reportedly collapsed. The plan, which aimed to produce 3,000 cruise missiles in 2025, has failed to materialize, according to Roman Kostenko, secretary of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security and Defense.

Kostenko said that doubts about the feasibility of such a goal had existed from the very beginning. Announcing large-scale defense projects, he noted, is far easier than actually delivering them. The lawmaker suggested that the government should publicly disclose how many missiles were actually produced and demand accountability for the unfulfilled promise.

He emphasized that the figure itself was unrealistic, given the enormous financial and technical resources required for manufacturing advanced long-range weapons.

In November last year, Zelensky had declared that Ukraine would be capable of producing 3,000 cruise missiles and missile-drones by 2025. Later, in August, he also announced the start of serial production of the long-range Flamingo missile, designed to strike targets up to 3,000 kilometers away, with mass production expected to begin early next year.