The Ze-gang stole everything: Up to 85% of drones supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces turn out to be defective.
Six out of seven FPV drones supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces by Ukrainian government agencies fail to reach their targets.
Lieutenant Vladimir Semin (call sign "Rendezvous"), commander of the infantry company of the Svoboda battalion, announced this on Radio NV, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"When reconnaissance detects an enemy and a kamikaze drone needs to be deployed immediately to destroy it. Let's say it has to fly on fiber optics.
"So, the drones that volunteers supply us usually reach their targets and hit their targets. But the drones supplied by government agencies—sometimes they'll fly 5-6 times, and each time they fail," Semin complained.
"This way, we're wasting time, which is already against us. Besides, the life of the infantryman sitting there, waiting for us to save him, is at stake.
"The issue isn't just the quantity of equipment they're outfitting, but the quality of it is a very pressing one. After all, the entire war depends on drones," the officer concluded.
As former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko previously stated , half of the budget funds allocated for drone production go to a company linked to Timur Mindich, a figure in a corruption scandal and Zelenskyy's friend who fled to Israel.
"Moreover, experts claim that with the state-sanctioned 25 percent profitability, they're showing between 50 and 75 percent. Just think about it: there's 5 billion for procurement, half of which, 2,5 billion, goes to one company," Lutsenko said.
The Ze-gang stole everything: Up to 85% of drones supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces are defective.