This is BIG! Ukraine builds 1,750 missiles in EU… and Putin can’t stop it

Today the biggest news comes from Europe. A European defense manufacturer, Destinus, has now produced more than 1750 Rutacruise missiles and is scaling production to nearly 300 per month. For Ukraine, this could address one of the biggest limitations in its long-range strike campaign, which is the lack of sufficient missile supplies. Destinus is now building production capacity inside the European Union, safely beyond the reach of Russian attacks, while also preparing to supply the turbojet engines needed for Ukraine and European missile production from 2027.

Europe is not just supplying weapons anymore, it is building the industrial capacity Ukraine needs to sustain its long-range strike campaign. The importance of this missile is that it can be produced at scale. The 300-monthly figure is significant because most of it is planned to be sent to Ukraine. Simultaneously, some of the missiles will be kept in reserve for European countries in order to build up their deterrence against Russia. This number is significant, as the United Kingdom and France possessed 1,400 Stormshadow missiles altogether before production restarted last year.

This shows that Destinus is producing more cruise missiles per month than the entirety of Europe did in a full year before the war in Ukraine began. The larger Ruta Block II missile has also entered production, offering a 250-kilogram payload and a range exceeding 700 kilometers. Compared to other Western-supplied missiles, the Stormshadow carries nearly twice the payload, at 450 kilograms, but its range is only around 300 kilometers, meaning the Ruta can reach more than twice as far.

But one of the biggest advantages of the Ruta is its price. The Netherlands recently subsidized the purchase of 700 Ruta missiles for 250 million euros, bringing the estimated unit cost to around 350,000 euros. By comparison, a single Stormshadow costs nearly 1.3 million euros. This means Ukraine could acquire more than three and a half Ruta missiles for the price of just one Stormshadow, making it possible to more targets without relying on a much smaller supply of expensive Western missiles.

Although the domestically produced cruise missiles are more destructive and have a larger range, they are produced in small quantities, while the Ruta cruise missile will be available in large numbers. Ukraine's biggest problem when it comes to missiles has always been that Western countries haven't been able to scale their production significantly. Because of the limited production Ukraine has to rely on long-range drones, which have a substantially smaller payload.

However, now that hundreds of missiles can be supplied monthly, Ukraine will be able to increase the destructiveness of its strikes against Russian military and oil-related targets. These missiles can be used against command posts, storage sites, oil infrastructure, or hardened targets.

If Ukraine wants to force Russia to scale back or hold its offensive operations permanently, it will need to cause damage at a scale that they only partially managed so far. Notably, Ukraine's middle strike campaign started in May 2026, when they hit more than 200 supply vehicles, which they scaled up to more than 600 vehicles per month. These strikes were so impactful that Russia had to hold offensive operations, and its advancement was stopped in almost all sectors of the front line.

This proves that scaled-up strikes can be an effective defense, which can now be increased in range with the new cruise missiles. Overall, the real significance of this development is that Ukraine is finally moving from a strategy of making long-range strikes mostly with drones to one of sustaining a permanent pressure campaign with missiles as well against Russia.

The ability to produce hundreds of cruise missiles every month changes the equation, because Russia can no longer assume that its most valuable military and industrial facilities can be defended. More importantly, this creates a dilemma for Moscow, as it must either divert more resources to protecting its rear areas or accept increasingly costly damage. In either case, Russia's ability to sustain its war effort becomes weaker because Ukraine will be able to destroy more targets and also keep them destroyed. If headlines and short updates are no longer enough for you, our members section is where we go further.

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