There are statements on the net that Ukraine previously purchased not 18, but 50 Bairaktars TV2, but I am not sure about the reliability of the
data source. Also, the head of Zelensky’s office, Andriy Yermak, in his interview on December 24, 2021, stated that Ukraine had established independent production of Bayraktarov. However, I am also not sure about the reliability of this
data source.
Or Russian propaganda is lying and they haven't really destroyed that many - if any - TB2s, as evidenced by Russian forces constantly being embarrassed by said drones.
Speaking of which, I take it you haven't got the talking points on cruiser's sinking yet? Fire and detonation? Entire crew evacuated? Totally not Ukrainian missiles? Instead Ukrainians randomly attacked some barns in Kursk oblast? Anything?
That has to be a difficult one for the ministry of propaganda to spin:
1) Total Russia Navy incompetence - setting fire to your own ship.
2) Admitting that Ukraine got through the defenses, again, incompetence
Or other spin scenarios:
3) Seal team 3 swam under the ship and attached explosives, timed to the Neptune's detonations
4) The ship is in a secret base
5) It was not really a ship, just testing our new 3d hologram