The shaheed-Geran drones have morphed into much faster and deadlier jet-propelled weapons.
Ever since the back-and-forth missile and drone strikes between Russia and Ukraine began targeting economic assets, the MSM has disproportionally featured the effects on Moscow’s oil and gas production.
The effect of this has disrupted diesel prices all over the planet, to the point where US President Donald J. Trump has pressured Kiev regime leader Volodymyr Zelensky into stopping it.
However, like everything else in this war, Russia’s economic strikes have been far more destructive.
Beyond disrupting power-generation and energy-distribution facilities, these attacks target shopping malls, warehouses, and distribution centers, disrupting companies including major Ukrainian retailers, publishing houses, pharmaceutical groups, and Nova Poshta, the country’s biggest private postal carrier.
Supermarket shortages in Kiev have also begun to appear, though sporadic at this point.
We also reported that the steel industry to the point of annihilation, as you can read in ‘As of Today, Ukraine Doesn’t Have a Steel Industry Anymore’: Mining CEO Reveals How Russian Strikes Are Destroying Kiev’s Economy.
ArcelorMittal Says It Can’t Restart Ukrainian Operations After Missile Strikes https://t.co/oGI1V7YCv6
— WSJ Business News (@WSJbusiness) September 25, 2026
And, as we anticipated, the steel giant ArcelorMittal said yesterday (25) that the strikes killed five employees at its plant in Ukraine, and forced it to cease operations in the country, leaving it facing a $1bn impairment charge.
Financial Times reported:
“The Luxembourg-based company said on Friday that its plant in Kryvyi Rih, about 400km south-east of Kiev, would be shuttered after being targeted by numerous missile attacks in recent weeks ‘resulting in fatalities, injuries and extensive damage to production facilities’.
[…] ‘The facility has been bombed four times in five weeks — you reach a point where it is neither safe nor economically sustainable to continue’, said a person close to the company.”
‘This is the first time in a century that Ukraine no longer produces steel.’
“ArcelorMittal’s facility, which includes production of long steel rods and beams for construction as well as an iron ore mine, is Ukraine’s biggest operational steel plant. The country lost control of Azovstal and Ilyich, formerly its two largest steel plants, to Russia during the 2022 siege of Mariupol.
Russia has specifically named Kryvyi Rih as a target in several government Telegram posts over the past month. The city is also the hometown of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.”
In the onslaught that Russian forces are unleashing on Ukrainian targets, a new modification of the by-now famous (or infamous) Shaheed-Geran drones is playing a prominent role.
Kiev’s own numbers show that the Russians were able to bombard Ukraine with thousands of jet-powered attack drones — a weapon that was rare just a year-and-a-half ago.
Remarkable footage of a Russian Jet powered “Geran 5” drone striking another Ukrainian locomotive behind the lines
These lethal drones have again changed the game, behind the lines particularly, as Ukrainain forces struggle to intercept them.
No civillians were injured. pic.twitter.com/760rthR5fX
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) July 20, 2026
Business Insider reported:
“Col. Yuriy Ignat, the main spokesperson for Ukraine’s air force, told national broadcaster TSN on Wednesday that the Kremlin has launched 7,700 turbojet drones into Ukraine so far.
The bulk of these appeared over the summer, surging from 350 jet-powered drones in June to 1,500 in July, before leaping to 2,850 in August, he said. Russia has launched 1,900 of the faster, more advanced drones so far this month.”
Russia torments Kyiv with new ‘horror’ jet drones.
Flying several kilometres in the air and close to the speed of a commercial plane, Moscow’s new long-range jet-powered drones are causing havoc for Kyiv’s stretched air defenceshttps://t.co/fSEdpKpXQ9 pic.twitter.com/dYul9QbKPg
— AFP News Agency (@AFP) September 9, 2026
By now, it is estimated that half of all Russian long-range drone attacks are made with these new weapons.
“Jet-powered drones have posed a particularly acute problem for Ukraine’s air defenses, with the country still scrambling to find cheap, mass-producible countermeasures.
A novelty in the war’s earlier years, the drones drew wider attention at the start of 2025, when Ukrainian war observers began reporting increased sightings of Shahed drones equipped with jet engines. Their surge in production this year indicates that Russia has greatly expanded access to vital components that Ukrainian intelligence has repeatedly said Moscow can only procure on the global market.”
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