Ukraine has started exporting drones. What risks did the authorities ignore and how to fix them

Ukraine starts exporting dronesin 2026, there will be ten export centers in Europe," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on February 8. In particular, in the Baltic States and the Nordic countries. The Head of State promised that in mid-February "we will see the production of our drones in Germany." He also emphasized that the production lines in Britain "are all our Ukrainian technologies."

on February 10, the Presidential Decree on the staff of the Interagency Commission on the policy of military-technical cooperation and export control. This also indicates that the country is moving closer to arms exports and that the new defense minister supports this step (after all, it is the Defense Ministry that manages the defense sector, and it was personnel changes that caused the delay in the decree).

Why only at the beginning of February, when the defense industry's entry into the global market was possible and justified much earlier? LIGA.net this was explained by.

Let me remind you that the key argument is that the Ukrainian experience, even with an attractive gimmick in the form of well-honed tactics for using weapons on the battlefield, can be successfully sold on the global defense market for a year and a half at most. That's why developers and manufacturers are in a hurry – the entire defense industry is worried like a horse before a race.