Half of drones available for military were provided by volunteers — Ukrainian MP
Pravda Ukraine
About 60% of the military’s drone needs are being met, with 30% of these drones being provided by volunteers, but one military unit uses and loses between 100 and 1,500 UAVs in combat missions every month.
Source: Ruslan Horbenko, MP and Deputy Chairman of the Human Rights Committee, in an interview with Ukrinform
Quote: “Unfortunately there have been cases where, for example, 26,000 drones were in storage points and did not reach the contact line. Even though you can never have too many drones at the contact line.”
Details: Horbenko stressed that in all his visits to the front line, he had never heard the military say the brigades were fully equipped with drones.
“One military unit uses and loses between 100 and 1,500 UAVs every month as a result of combat missions,” he said.
Horbenko noted that about 60% of the military’s drone needs are currently being met. 30% of these are provided by volunteers.
Background:
- Almost 100% of the drones for the Armed Forces are developed in Ukraine, mostly by private businesses.
- Since the beginning of the year, the Ministry of Defence has codified and approved more than 10 domestically produced unmanned aerial vehicles for use in the military.
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