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☆ Ukraine is making fake artillery from sewer pipes, hoping to trick Russia into firing expensive drones and missiles at them
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Sinéad Baker | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Part of Ukraine's fightback against Russia includes using fake weapons. It wants Russia to waste expensive missiles and drones targeting cheap decoys, Metinvest told CNN. The goal, steel and mining company Metinvest told CNN, is to save the lives of Ukrainians while also getting Russia to waste its own drones, shells, and missiles. "War is expensive and we need the Russians to spend money using drones and missiles to destroy our decoys," a company spokesperson told CNN. Hundreds of the fake weapons made by Metinvest have been targeted by Russia, CNN reported.

Persons: Metinvest, Metinvest's Organizations: Russia, CNN, Service, Guardian Locations: Ukrainian, Russia, Wall, Silicon, Ukraine

But – and this is the point – it costs Russian forces just as much to destroy with a drone strike as the real thing. “After each hit, the military gives us trophy wreckage,” explains the company’s spokesman, “We collect them. But as the war has worn on and the weaponry arriving in the country has grown ever more sophisticated, so too have Metinvest’s decoys. It shows, hanging from a tree somewhere in Ukraine, a life-size effigy of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It is also the work of his men, he says with satisfaction, and like the weapons, he hopes, soon a thing of the past.

Persons: Metinvest, doesn’t, “, ”, –, CNN “, Vladimir Putin Organizations: CNN, Russian Locations: Ukrainian, Ukraine

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