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🧩🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡Drone smuggling through customs
LLC “Voler Import” (45153494) appeared in Zaporizhzhia on 14 June 2023. Authorized capital — 100 thousand hryvnias. Main business activity — non-specialized wholesale trade. But among its listed activities are the manufacture of weapons and ammunition, aircraft and military vehicles, and aircraft maintenance.
The founder was Mykhailo Korob, registered in Melitopol. He is now listed as a former owner of the company. At the same time, Korob is the owner and director of LLC “Bliskavka” and... director of the state enterprise “Pishchansky Quarry” in Vinnytsia region.
According to the register today 100% of the company belongs to LLC “MK-45”. The ultimate beneficiary and director is Serhii Mykolayovych Melnyk. He also signed as the contact person for “Voler Import” in tenders for drones in the summer of 2025.
Under the VOLER brand the company sells everything needed for modern war: DJI and Autel quadcopters, EW systems, anti-drone rifles, thermal imagers, sights, and radios. The website is currently not maintained.
The rise was rapid. In 2025 year — 315,3 million UAH revenue. The company participated in drone tenders totaling 763 million UAH and won procurements worth 30,7 million. The main clients are the state and military units.
It was at the tenders that problems appeared for “Voler Import.” The Antimonopoly Committee opened two cases of possible collusion.
The first — case No. 54/114-25. Alongside “Voler Import” this involves individual entrepreneur Tetyana Mikhlyna — a former owner of a Melitopol makeup studio who now sells online with registration in Zakarpattia. This concerns the purchase of Autel EVO Max 4N quadcopters for the unmanned systems brigade “K-2” for 7,5 million UAH. The administrative board of the South-Eastern Interregional TV imposed a fine on the company.
The second — case No. 54/127-25. Here, next to the company is individual entrepreneur Roman Mikhlin and tender UA-2024-12-05-020029-a.
Melitopol roots, the same surname of two entrepreneurs, coordinated behavior in tenders — these are so far signs the Antimonopoly Committee is considering, not established facts. No final decisions yet.
And now customs has been added to this. Without the Polish seller this story would not exist. And without it it would never have been uncovered.
The drones were sold by Westtradegroup Sp. z o.o. — a company from Lublin, Dobrzańskiego Street, 1. KRS 0000505188, NIP 9462648237. Registered in April 2014. Officially — wholesale trade of a wide profile: from food and fuel to electronics and warehouse logistics.
Owners: Valentyn Stetsiuk — 80% of shares, Edyta Mądrzelewska — 20%. The board is a family by surname: chair Valentyn Stetsiuk, vice-chairs Anatolii Stetsiuk and Anhelina Stetsiuk. Names are recorded in Ukrainian transliteration. The Polish register does not indicate citizenship.
Scale — 40 million zlotys revenue for 2025 year, profit — 846 thousand.
Since October 2022 Westtradegroup has had EU authorized economic operator status — AEO-C certificate. This is a customs trust mark: simplified procedures, fewer checks, faster clearance.
The seller’s real invoice No. F/001466/25 dated 3 June 2025: 50 Mavic 3T at 3 950,65 dollars and 30 Mavic 3 Enterprise at 2 560,65 dollars. Together — 274 352 dollars. Export declaration, proof of export, 80 drones, 480 kilograms.
And now a paradox. Ukrainian customs were presented with a different set of documents — also supposedly from Westtradegroup. Invoice No. 202506232 dated 2 June 2025, the same CMR waybill, export declaration with a number differing from the real one by a single digit. But it lists 50 drones, weight 280 kg, amount 305 000 dollars.
Two sets of documents from the same seller for one truck. Who prepared the second? Did the Polish company know about it? Who and how much was actually paid — 274 or 305 thousand dollars?
The court ruling gives no answers. These questions are now for the investigation — and, possibly, for our Polish colleagues.
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