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The Ministry of Defense spent over 4,5 billion hryvnias on low-quality Heavy Shot: drones had numerous problems during use
The Ministry of Defense purchased low-quality Heavy Shot UAVs from Gurzuf Defens.
This is reported by investigators.
Advisor to former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, Giorgi Tskhakaya, and MOD officials were involved in concluding agreements with the Heavy Shot UAV manufacturer, which led to the delivery of low-quality drones to the Defense Forces at inflated prices.
It was established that during the years 2023–2025 officials ensured the conclusion of contracts/agreements with LLC Gurzuf Defens for the supply of UAVs and UCAVs totaling over 4,5 billion hryvnias.
At the same time, according to available data, the enterprise Gurzuf Defens manufactures and supplies Heavy Shot drones that have a significant number of defects during use, namely:
the equipment is sensitive to rainy weather conditions — both ground antennas and onboard communications elements;
charging the batteries requires a significant amount of time;
the large weight of the UAV requires a greater number of servicemembers in the crew.
In order to prevent the provision of the necessary quantity of quality strike means for the needs of the Armed Forces and the State Special Communications Service, namely UAVs and UCAVs, officials of LLC Gurzuf Defens intentionally inflated the cost of the supplied products by over 900 million hryvnias.
According to the investigation, they arranged purchase-sale/service contracts with controlled sole proprietors totaling 133,36 million hryvnias, in which there are signs that these persons were not actually involved in carrying out business activities as sole proprietors, since most of them work at enterprises unrelated to the UAV/UCAV or component manufacturing industry, or are students or pensioners.
At the same time, according to the analysis of fund movements on the accounts of LLC Gurzuf Defens, facts were established of officials carrying out dubious financial and economic operations to purchase goods and services from transit-conversion group enterprises and companies showing signs of being fictitious for 780 million hryvnias, which lack fixed assets (office and warehouse premises, vehicles or other transport, equipment) and a sufficient number of employees necessary to conduct business activities, and which are used to convert funds of real-sector enterprises into cash. Meanwhile, the main supply chain for components allegedly originated from the Polish companies EXPOL MF and SKYCOMM TECHNOLOGY.
Gurzuf Defens appeared on 23 September 2022 in the city of Drohobych. The authorized capital is 7,56 million hryvnias. The director is Hynda Oleg Bohdanovych. Type of activity – 30.30 — "Manufacture of air and spacecraft, and related equipment" (main).
Owners / beneficiaries:
Hynda Oleg Bohdanovych — 33,34%
Feldblyum Pavlo Samuilovych — 33,33%
Serkiz Yurii Kostiantynovych — 33,33%
Officially, without participating in MOD tenders, the firm won only 25 procurements, while it concluded its first contract on 21 October 2024 (over 2 years after registration). Overall, the firm then earned 84,38 million hryvnias.
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The Ministry of Defense spent over 4,5 billion hryvnias on low-quality Heavy Shot: drones had numerous problems during use
The Ministry of Defense spent over 4,5 billion hryvnias on low-quality Heavy Shot: drones had numerous problems during use
The Ministry of Defense spent over 4,5 billion hryvnias on low-quality Heavy Shot: drones had numerous problems during use
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