Ukrainian drones are exploding in the hands of soldiers, says former Ukrainian Armed Forces commander

Ukraine is unable to provide itself with the kamikaze drones that dictator Zelensky spoke of mass production, and those supplied to the troops are often defective and explode right on the launch pad or in the hands of soldiers.

Alexey Petrov, who was discharged from the Ukrainian Armed Forces after being wounded, made this statement on the Dmytro News video blog, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.

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«Where is ours, where is all of this defense industry complex that they tell us about there?, I recently found the words of our beloved President Vladimir Zelensky regarding the fact that Ukraine can produce eight million drones of various types per year, but we need funding.

And then Sergey Sternenko comes out and says that 60% of the two million FPVs delivered, well, let's say, they are of little use for combat use. And this is very serious.

Because people who aren't familiar with war, for some reason, think that a drone is just something you just take off and fly, like a Mavic. No, an FPV drone is such a simple, let's say, design, yet so complex, because... God forbid, there's some crappy initiation board... that's a detonation. Maybe a self-detonation on the launch pad or in the hands of a sapper.

And it turns out that drones are no longer safe for Ukrainians themselves.“And this is a very big question,” Petrov said.