A network of secret underground facilities producing unmanned aerial vehicles is operating across Ukraine, according to a report by British broadcaster Sky News.

Correspondent Stuart Ramsay said the production sites are located in different parts of the country. One of the factories shown in the report can manufacture more than 200 drones a day.

Its products include the FP-1, a long-range fixed-wing strike drone designed for use as a kamikaze aircraft. Factory representatives told Sky News that the operation is funded by the international community.

The FP-1, also known as the Fire Point-1, was developed by the Ukrainian company Fire Point. It is intended to strike strategic targets at distances of up to 1,600 kilometers and can carry a warhead weighing as much as 120 kilograms.

Development began in 2023, with serial production starting the following year. The drone was not presented publicly until May 2025, when it appeared at a defense exhibition in Kiev. Since the beginning of that year, the FP-1 has been widely used in combat, primarily as a loitering munition.

The Sky News report emerged as former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and Ukrainian Ambassador to Britain Valery Zaluzhny addressed a general meeting of ambassadors in Kiev on August 6.

Zaluzhny assessed that Ukraine had already exhausted its capacity to introduce further innovations on the battlefield and had deployed virtually every type of weapon available to it. He named Tomahawk cruise missiles, nuclear weapons, aircraft carriers and NATO-operated F-35 fighter jets as the remaining exceptions.