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Golden drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a million-dollar business in Britain: how officials and “UKRSPECSYSTEMS” are profiting from the war
While Ukrainians scrape together their last pennies for drones at the front, government offices and connected defense merchants have turned the supply of aerial reconnaissance equipment into a highly profitable business. Under the cover of patriotic slogans, taxpayers’ money is being siphoned off through closed state procurements with marketed markups.
According to our information, the head of the Servant of the People faction David #Арахамія, together with former Defense Minister Mykhailo #Федоров, are clearing the way for the company “#УКРСПЕЦСИСТЕМС” to win multi-million state contracts. The company’s owners, Vyacheslav #Костюк and Serhiy #Левківський, who manufacture PD-2, SHARK, MINI SHARK, RAM-2X and One Punch drone systems, are scaling operations far beyond Ukraine, ❗ building a private business in the United Kingdom at the expense of the Ukrainian defense budget.
The arithmetic of the contracts is striking in its cynicism. If in 2024 one Mini Shark-D set was purchased for 3 433 990,03 UAH excluding VAT, by 2025 one Shark-D cost the state 8 881 131,50 UAH excluding VAT. Moreover, the military unit A2062’s contract for Shark-D and equipment reached 15 143 499,10 UAH excluding VAT. The cost of the system increased more than 2,5 times in a year, and the difference between procurements amounts to over 💰 5,4 million UAH per unit.
Analysis shows that the price of products for the Ukrainian military is artificially inflated by approximately 30%. On each purchased Shark-D the overpayment 🤷♂️ is roughly 2,66 million UAH, and on just ten such systems the dealers “earn” more than 26,6 million UAH in excess profit.
Where are these funds going? While Ukrainian fighters critically lack wings, “UKRSPECSYSTEMS” is building its own manufacturing complex in the United Kingdom with declared investments of about $250 million. 🔻 It will create up to 500 jobs, testing sites and training centers.
📌 But worst of all — not only money but also critical technologies are being siphoned abroad: design documentation, software, know-how and competencies. The British facility is located near the Royal Air Force base Mildenhall, and foreign contractors gain access to Ukrainian developments. Ukraine remains a dependent buyer of its own stolen work.
The post on this topic gathered 330 thousand views, as many as 2 thousand likes, nearly 200 comments and 300 reposts.❗This situation provokes justifiable outrage among citizens:
“When will there be a firing squad for looting?”
“Why even end the war… they have a business”
“Bastards, how could you betray Ukraine like this”
The security services and law enforcement agencies are obliged to immediately open criminal proceedings on the facts of looting, procurement at inflated prices and illegal export of strategic technologies abroad. If siphoning money during a war is called “investing,” soon the country will have to be defended not by drones but by officials’ declarations.
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