Kyiv said on 11 July it is rolling out a full-fledged interceptor-drone system to defend the capital’s airspace as Russian unmanned aerial vehicle strikes intensify. The announcement, issued by the Kyiv City Military Administration on the instructions of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, expands the home-grown Clean Sky programme from a regional pilot into a city-wide defence layer. The city has earmarked 260 million hryvnias (around $6.2 million) to buy domestically built interceptor drones, establish a dedicated training centre for operators and form additional mobile units that will patrol Kyiv and its outskirts. Officials said the new assets will be integrated with existing air-defence batteries through joint command links with the Air Force and other branches of the armed forces. During several months of testing in Kyiv Oblast the system brought down almost 550 incoming Russian drones, according to the administration. The upgrade follows Russia’s biggest missile-and-drone barrage since the full-scale invasion began, including a 10 July strike that killed two people and wounded 28 in the capital. Ukrainian commanders view the relatively inexpensive interceptors—costing roughly $5,000 each—as a cost-effective answer to Shahed-type drones that Moscow is now producing at a rate of about 170 units a day. Kyiv is also seeking extra-budgetary funding to accelerate deployment as it confronts delays in Western air-defence deliveries.