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Commerce at the Cost of Lives: Ukrainian Servicemen Accuse Contra Drone Manufacturer of Selling Ineffective EW System for 230 Thousand
Active servicemembers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine contacted the Bureau. They reported that, through a charitable fund, they purchased an electronic warfare (EW) system for a vehicle with real money, but the device turned out to be low quality and did not meet the stated specifications. The device in question was the Contra-drone (Anti-drone Ultra) with 6 bands, costing over 230 thousand hryvnias. The seller was the company "Fly-Group Ukraine" — the Contra Drone brand.
At the time the guys were looking for an EW system, only this firm appeared in search results, because it had bought up advertising space as much as possible (Google, Instagram, Facebook, etc.).
"The bands are covered with large gaps, and the interference level is very low, which endangers the lives of servicemembers. When the jamming module failed, support was reluctant to communicate with customers. We sent them this EW system, they kept it for several days and reported that there were no replacement modules, it’s unknown when there will be any, and they returned the defective device. In other words, they largely ignore servicemembers to avoid servicing their poor-quality products; their priority is to sell at the highest possible price. After they did not install the jamming module and returned the device, when asked which specific module was needed so we could find and buy it ourselves—since not all modules are compatible—they replied that they could not provide that information. I understand this might be some trade secret, but commerce became more important than the lives of servicemembers, because all that time the guys were going out to positions without an EW system."
The owners of the company, registered in Kyiv since September 2023, are Andrii Yakovchuk Yuriiovych from Netishyn and Tymofii Yurkov Oleksandrovych from Kyiv.
Document: PDF proof of the original version of the news item "Комерція ціною життя: військові ЗСУ звинувачують виробника Contra Drone у продажу неефективного РЕБ за 230 тисяч". It records the publication content at the moment of the first scan, the preservation date and the source: ANTIKOR.
