Ivan Kyrychevskyi, a serviceman from the Reyd regiment and weapons expert at Defense Express, said on Espreso.“I think the issue is different: it is hard to directly record a strike. Let’s put it this way — to record it for the media space. The Russians are not stupid, and they take preventive measures against those things we use here, so when someone says, ‘Ah, I’ll film it now and tell everything,’ they have countermeasures. So the fact that we do not see, for example, something flying from our side and striking spectacularly in real time is one thing. And the other thing is when the opponent regularly posts, let’s say, scatterings of fragments of various munitions, including rocket-powered ones — that’s a different matter. Yes, the Russians also have the problem that a significant share of their Shahed UAVs and cruise missiles get shot down. But on the other hand, the Russians have far more air-defense systems. Still, we have reached an interesting stage where we can start discussing realistic prospects of paralyzing relevant sectors of the Russian energy system, which was built almost as if for nuclear war,” he said.Kyrychevskyi also noted that when the president a year ago mentioned prospects for producing 3,000 cruise missiles, one should make another qualification.“Obviously, when people talked about 3,000 cruise missiles there may have been terminological confusion and it did not mean only the classic cruise missiles we are used to, but also what we call missile-drones. Still, we come back to the fact that, on the one hand, we all want to be able to touch and see the results of the defense-industrial complex’s work — but we shouldn’t expect that. After all, the Russians reasonably do not publish all relevant materials about themselves and in some respects do the right thing. We are in the same situation. We can’t show everything, but the prospects of a severe shortage of fuel on their side are, as they say, evident. If the corresponding weapons were not being produced and used, things would be too good for the Russians,” he added.