(19 Sep 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Undisclosed location, Ukraine – 12 June 2025
1. Various of drone engineers of FRDM Group company preparing bomber drone “baba yaga” for a testing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Unnamed, Drone Engineer of FRDM Group:
"There are no drones we know that can stand against EW machines and fly that far right now at this moment. That’s why this is unique."
3. Various of bomber drone flying
4. Various of engineers operating the drone
5. Close of a screen
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Unnamed, Drone Engineer of FRDM Group:
"You can see how Ukraine, who does not have for example missiles that can hit enemy planes at the point where they actually making a shooting on our territory, but we use drones to destroy them."
7. Close of a drone landing
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kyiv, Ukraine – 23 June 2025
8. Close of weapons models
9. Wide of the head of the state’s procurement agency Arsen Zhumadilov talking to AP journalist
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Arsen Zhumadilov, Head of the MOD’s Defense Procurement Agency:
"Now the estimate is, I cannot say that it is hundred percent accurate, but still it is that the capacity of the internal market to produce per annum is from 30 to 40 billion US dollars per annum. That goes in a stark contrast with 2022 when the number was single digit."
11. Close of weapons models
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Arsen Zhumadilov, Head of the MOD’s Defense Procurement Agency:
"We believe that our best guarantee is not relying on somebody’s will to protect us, but rather our ability to protect ourselves. The will and ability of others to protect us has been challenged, as you know, and not all of our partners have passed through that challenge in the way that we would expect them. So this is why of course this is the key sentiment of the last month probably and the good news that we were actually able to follow this path."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Undisclosed location, Ukraine – 16 June 2025
13. Various of workers working on the armored vehicles
14. Wide of UKR Armo Tech’s CEO Hennadii Khirhii talking to AP journalist
15. Close of a model of armored vehicle’s
16. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Hennadii Khirhii, UKR Armo Tech’s CEO:
"Undoubtedly, at the moment all our industrial potential is based on the military-industrial complex. I am sure that we need not to stop and develop it, but this is possible only if we enter international markets, because at present all production is already well underway, already has high potential and the ability to produce a lot. We really need to enter international markets in order to fully load our production in the future. Therefore, this is a question of opening up exports of products."
17. Various of workers painting the armoured vehicles
STORYLINE:
With little prospect of Ukraine joining NATO, the country’s Western allies have bought into an alternate strategy for deterring Russia now and in the future: invest billions in Ukraine’s growing and highly regarded weapons industry so that it can better defend itself from Moscow’s aggression — and eventually share cutting-edge drones, missiles and other military technology with Europe and the U.S.
One recent advance in Ukraine’s homegrown arsenal is a quadcopter drone that can evade Russian jamming devices, fly more than 20 kilometers (12 miles) and drop six kilograms (13 pounds) of guided explosives onto tanks and other high-value targets.
Russian soldiers call it “baba yaga” after a witch in Slavic folktales that kidnaps and each children; its Ukrainian developer calls it the R-34 and said it strikes as precisely as a sniper rifle.
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