Amid concern in Kyiv that the United States is becoming a less dependable ally, Ukraine has unveiled its own domestically developed drone designed specifically to counter one of Moscow’s weapons of choice, Iranian-made Shahed explosive drones.
Russia again launched multiple drones on Monday at Ukraine’s Sumy region. Explosions rang out from strikes that claimed lives and damaged civilian infrastructure. Vladimir Putin’s forces have used the lethal, relatively inexpensive Shahed drones to attack Ukraine’s infrastructure for years.
Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and visiting Belgian Prime Minister Bart de Wever met representatives of defense companies in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, where the new Ukrainian weapon system was revealed.
Video posted by Zelenskyy on social media showed what was touted as a newly developed interceptor drone, but the images were kept obscure to avoid divulging details of the system, and no information on it was provided.