# Expert: Ukrainian forces set up UAV assembly workshops in Kyiv residential areas

https://mins.news/en/item/40499

- TASS, 2026-09-01 14:34 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/defense/2180515

> Military expert Dmitry Barov says Ukrainian authorities have established small, “garage-style” facilities in residential neighborhoods of Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities to assemble drone components, UAVs and ammunition for them. The remarks follow a fire and explosion at an ammunition depot near Kyiv, which Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged was located in a residential area.

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