Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland

2:00 am

Photo of John LahartJohn Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail)
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I thank the ambassador. I am the final speaker in this round. She mentioned that in the first six months of this year 30,000 guided aerial bombs, over 11,000 Shahed drones, 9,000 other types of attack drone and more than 1,000 missiles, including ballistic ones, were used. Will she talk about the drone attacks and give a little more detail? We have no conception of this here. It is just to explain how they happen. Is it during the night or during the day, and what is the impact? What payloads, that is, weapons, do the drones carry?