Ukrainian long-range missile-maker Fire Point aims to produce three missiles a day by the end of the year — roughly 90 a month, matching Russia's own pace — its co-owner Denys Shtilerman said in in an interview posted on YouTube on July 27.

The maker of the famous Flamingo cruise missile, if the target reached it would be a step towards closing the missile production gap with Russia. During the Ankara Nato summit on July 8, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that Russia’s lead in producing ballistic missiles was its “last advantage” in the four-year-old war. Fire Point is also developing a true ballistic missile (FP-9) which was shown publicly for the first time in April but has yet to be used in combat.

IntelliNews has reported that Fire Point is already central to Ukraine's push for strategic depth against Russia, and that Trump's decision to let Ukraine license-build Patriot interceptors will help fight Kyiv's next war with Russia rather than this one, given the years it takes to bring new production lines online.

Shtilerman addressed Ukraine's ballistic-missile ambitions directly, saying Russia has adapted its Iskander missiles to "burn more Patriots" by making the warhead shell thicker so it keeps flying and detonating even if the missile body is hit, since Russia lacks a hit-to-kill interceptor of its own.

On Ukraine's own drone strikes on Moscow, Shtilerman said Russian air defences have struggled to intercept them cleanly: in one case, three Pantsir systems fired at a single drone and missed, then failed again against a second aircraft he called "Morok", producing what he called the now-famous "roof" over Moscow — a reference to the layered but porous air-defence screen the capital has thrown up.

Ballistic missiles alone will not be decisive, Shtilerman argued, but he pointed to a broader shift in Ukraine's military leadership under the mew Commander-in-Chief Mykhailo Drapatyi, who he said takes "an uncompromising line" that Russia "has no right to exist as an empire" and that a package of pressure measures could ultimately force Russian collapse.