The Ukrainian Defence Forces will soon receive more than 5,000 FPV drones with Ukrainian-made ammunition worth $6.5 million
In the summer of 2023, the Turn Live Foundation, Monobank and the UNITED24 platform raised UAH 235 million ($6.5 million) for FPV drones in three days. The drones will soon be handed over to the Ukrainian Defence Forces.
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Monobank founder Oleg Gorokhovskyi announced the receipt of the first batch of drones, which consists of more than 5,000 FPV drones. All of them will be equipped with Ukrainian-made shaped-charge and fragmentation-fragmentation munitions.
In Serpni "Turn Back Alive", UNITED24 and monobank within the framework of the project "Operation "Environment" for 3 days acumulatively more than 235,000,000 hryvnias for 10 thousand drone-camikazes with a combat part. pic.twitter.com/tDJEKdST3c
- Turn Alive (@BackAndAlive) October 11, 2023
The FPV drones will be donated to the Ukrainian Defence Forces, including Territorial Defence units and the Special Operations Centre "A" of the Security Service of Ukraine. A total of 10,000 kamikaze drones were purchased with the $6.5 million raised. No word yet on when the second part will arrive.
Source: @OGoMono