The Ukrainian army attacked the Russian army for the first time on 24 August with a new weapon, the Palianytsia drone missile. [Palianytsia is a traditional Ukrainian bun; this word is difficult for Russians to pronounce correctly, so it is used as a shibboleth – ed.]
Ukraine had lots of military industry after the fall of the Soviet union. From ships to missiles to helicopters to big ass planes.
It’s just that they pissed most of it away.
Uneducated here, how?
Corruption. The common trope is that vultures feasted on the corpse of the Soviet Union.