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.
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