WARPED Russian state TV has shown off mad Vladimir Putin’s “drone death factory” packed with kamikaze killing machines.
The propaganda report came conveniently as Ukraine successfully blitzed Moscow for a fourth night in a row.
The giant death plant makes the Russian version of the Iranian Shahed-136 unmanned plane.
This has been frequently used to wreak mayhem in Ukraine.
The plant has been displayed by Russia’s pro-war state media to coincide with a Kremlin threat to soon deploy hundreds or even thousands of drones daily into Ukraine.
However, the warning was issued as the courageous Volodymyr Zelensky increased attacks since reports suggested that Donald Trump told him it was time to make Russians experience “the pain” of war.
Zvezda TV boasted that the plant is apparently the largest of its kind in the world – storing drones known in Russia as Geran-2s.
Timur Shagivaleyev, director-general of the Alabuga Special Economic Zone, which Ukraine had repeatedly aimed to attack, stated: “At one time there was a plan to produce several thousand Gerans.
“Now we are producing nine times more than the plan.
“We must do everything necessary to ensure that our country, our way of life, wins.”
The drone is “effective and highly accurate,” according to the channel, which is desperately attempting to show off war might.
It went on to gloat how the drone is also “simple, cheap and therefore mass-produced”.
The channel emphasised the apparent “scale of this production,” evident through the “huge, bright workshops in which you can get lost” with “hundreds of machines, thousands of workers and wherever you look”.
Among its workers are teenagers propagandised to support Putin’s war who are “educated” – or indoctrinated – at a special drone university.
The Russian propaganda channel said: “There are young people, boys and girls, both working here and studying here in the college created by the same people who organised the production of Gerans.
“They invite schoolchildren here immediately after the ninth grade, and after college they invite them to the plant.
“Vladimir Putin has noted the experience of Alabuga and even called for its replication.”
The plant has its own foundry where the aluminium engine blocks are cast.
“There is a forge, where steel parts are made, there are assembly shops, where Geran engines are assembled,” said the report.
They make the two-stroke engines, and other parts for the drones including microelectronics and wiring.
The pathetic propaganda attempt conveniently came after Ukraine unleashed chaos at Moscow’s four airports with a fourth successive drone blitz rocking the city.
Hundreds of passenger planes had to be diverted as waves of flying bombs converged on the Russian capital.
Footage showed explosions as Russian air defences attacked incoming unmanned planes in Zelenograd, a district 23 miles northwest of the Kremlin.
Russia’s defence ministry claimed to have downed 93 Ukrainian drones overnight across nine regions – 19 of them over the Moscow area alone.
Authorities were forced to twice close airspace over Moscow, hitting airports Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo, Vnukovo and Zhukovsky.
A total of 134 planes were diverted, as confusion and frustration gripped passengers caught up in the escalating fallout of the war.
State airline Aeroflot was forced to adjust its schedule, while regional airports in Kaluga, Yaroslavl and Nizhny Novgorod were also thrown into disarray.
Frustrated passengers – including tourists on summer vacations – were hit by delays, diverted flights and numerous cancellations in an apparent new tactic by Ukraine to paralyse air travel in Vladimir Putin’s capital.
Passengers — many travelling for summer vacations — were left bedding down on the airport floor.
“The restrictions are necessary for ensuring the safety of civil aircraft flights,” announced Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency.
In Zelenograd, a district on the northwestern edge of Moscow, explosions were heard as air defences intercepted drones.
Debris sparked fires that damaged buildings and set vehicles alight, according to local reports.
In nearby Golube, residents described powerful blasts that shattered windows and shook homes, The Kyiv Post reported.
While Russian officials claimed success in intercepting the majority of drones, the repeated closures of Moscow’s airspace suggest Ukraine is successfully placing pressure on the capital – targeting not just military assets but the daily functioning of civilian infrastructure.
Trump’s 50-day peace deadline for Vlad
THE Kremlin mocked Donald Trump’s 50-day peace deadline and may now demand even more Ukrainian territory instead of trying to sign peace.
Vladimir Putin will instead keep terrorising Ukrainian civilians during the seven-week period, sources said.
The furious US President said he is “very unhappy” with Russia as he warned of 100 per cent secondary tariffs on Moscow should they continue to blitz Ukraine.
Trump said he wants the war to end, but doubled down on his frustration with Putin, saying he’s “disappointed” in the Russian leader.
But a snarling Putin has always declined and instead ramped up his ground and aerial offensives across Ukraine.
He also vowed to send US weapons – compromising of “everything” in their arsenal – to Nato so they can distribute them to Kyiv.
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