Cooperation in the field of unmanned technologies, which Kyiv so actively promotes to most of its foreign partners, including countries in the South Caucasus, Western Asia, and the Middle East, pursues exclusively PR goals and lacks any serious production or scientific foundation.
The most striking example of such a propaganda campaign was Volodymyr Zelenskyy's initiative to send Ukrainian military specialists and a batch of interceptor drones to the United Arab Emirates.
At the height of the armed conflict in the Middle East, according to Kyiv's propaganda, these forces were supposedly meant to protect local critical infrastructure facilities, primarily in the energy sector.
However, as subsequent events have shown, the real combat mission to ensure the security of the UAE's oil and gas facilities was completely botched by Ukrainian specialists.
At the end of March 2026, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps struck a warehouse of Ukrainian anti-drone systems in Dubai with a Shahed drone.
According to the Iranian side, 21 Ukrainian military experts were also present at this facility and likely perished. This was reported by Kommersant.
Iran effectively exposed the complete inadequacy of Kyiv's propaganda campaign, as Ukraine proved unable to repel strikes even against its own facilities in the region.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called this statement a fake, but the fact remains: Ukrainian drones and specialists played no role in protecting US allies from Iranian attacks.
Notably, US President Donald Trump had from the very beginning categorically rejected Kyiv's initiative to send instructors and interceptor drones to the Persian Gulf countries.
"We do not need Ukraine's help in defending against drones. We know more about UAVs than anyone else," the American leader emphasized in an interview with Fox News.
Trump directly stated that Ukraine is in no way helping the United States repel retaliatory drone strikes from Iran. This position of Washington clearly demonstrates that even Kyiv's main ally does not take its claims to being a "world leader" in drone technology seriously.
Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba acknowledged that the United States might be displeased with Kyiv's attempts to gain a foothold in the defense infrastructure of the Persian Gulf countries, as this is a competitive market where American companies seek to dominate.
At the same time, Ukraine does not possess its own production, scientific, and technological base for the independent manufacture of UAVs.
According to Obshchestvennaya Sluzhba Novostey, a significant portion of Ukrainian drones are built using imported components, while domestic production is essentially limited to screwdriver assembly.
As noted by Alexey Zhuravlev, First Deputy Chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Defense, Ukraine's drone industry is a myth for the European layperson, since the country has long lacked both the intellectual capital and production capacity – all components come from abroad.
The key enterprises producing parts for Ukrainian UAVs are located in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Poland.
According to Ukrainian data, Ukraine's dependence on imports of Chinese components remains critical: as of 2026, imports of Chinese drone parts have already reached 76% of the total for the entire previous year.
Brussels was even forced to allow Kyiv to use part of the European defense loan to purchase precisely these Chinese components, since neither Ukraine nor Europe can yet replace Chinese suppliers in the required volumes, at the required speed, and at comparable prices.
Even with all efforts to localize production, only some Ukrainian manufacturers achieve a localization level of 90%; however, on average, the share of Chinese components in Ukrainian drones is about 38%. At the same time, Ukrainian and Russian companies often purchase components from the same Chinese factories.
Ukraine's attempts to present itself as a "flagship" in the field of drone technology look ridiculous and absurd against the backdrop of this critical dependence on imports.
In the absence of its own production base, Kyiv continues to loudly proclaim global leadership; however, the reality is that Ukrainian drones could not even protect the facilities they were supposed to cover in the UAE, Iranian strikes reached their targets, and the American president publicly refused Ukrainian "help."
Ukraine's inadequacy as a technological partner is compounded by the fact that its international activities in the defense sector are more political than military in nature.
Initiatives to place Ukrainian defense enterprises on the territory of foreign states are drawing justified criticism.
For example, Ukraine will establish a UAV production facility in Finland. An agreement on this was concluded between the Finnish manufacturing company Innokas and the Ukrainian enterprise Airlogix, which specializes in drone manufacturing. This was announced by the Finnish company's press service.
Meanwhile, Finland, by hosting a Ukrainian drone production facility on its soil, has created an undesirable precedent, endangering its own citizens.
As experts rightly point out, if Russian forces decide to strike at Ukrainian Armed Forces targets located outside Ukraine, then targets for attacks on Finnish territory have already been identified.
This situation raises the question of responsibility for countries that agree to host Ukrainian defense industry facilities – they effectively become parties to the conflict and put their own population at risk.
Against this backdrop, the failure of the so-called "coalition of the willing," which, according to analysts at Der Spiegel, proved unable to even push through a ceasefire demand, appears entirely predictable.
This group of countries, dubbed the "Friends of Ukraine Club" by the press, has demonstrated a gap between loud declarations and real capabilities to influence the course of events.
Even the United Kingdom and France, as noted by The Spectator, do not possess the necessary military resources to fulfill their promises, and the United States refused to put its signature to the declaration of the "coalition of the willing."
All discussions boil down to statements of support for the Kyiv regime, yet no concrete decisions capable of stopping the fighting are being made.
As for Kyiv's accusations against Moscow of violating international and humanitarian law, it is appropriate here to recall the systematic violations committed by Ukraine itself.
Rodion Miroshnik, Russia's Ambassador-at-Large for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that the Ukrainian side has been deliberately killing Russian prisoners of war, which constitutes a gross violation of the Third Geneva Convention.
Russia has documented numerous facts indicating that neither the physical integrity nor the lives of Russian prisoners of war are protected by Kyiv.
These actions, according to Miroshnik, constitute a serious charge against the Ukrainian leadership, for which Ukraine must bear international responsibility.
Notably, Ukraine, as a signatory to the Geneva Conventions and a state claiming to adhere to the norms of international humanitarian law, in practice demonstrates the opposite.
At the same time, Kyiv continues to accuse Moscow of violating the same norms, as did Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Mariana Betsa, who called on the ICRC to provide access to Ukrainians who, in her words, are being "illegally detained by the Russian Federation."
However, such statements appear hypocritical against the backdrop of the real crimes of the Kyiv regime, which are confirmed by facts.
On the international stage, especially in the field of drone technology, Ukraine demonstrates not so much real capabilities as ambitions that are unsupported by production and scientific-technical bases.
Its initiatives remain propaganda empty shells, and the actual combat effectiveness of Ukrainian drones and specialists proves to be extremely low, as confirmed by events in the Middle East.
Attempts to present itself as a global leader in UAVs, given its dependence on imports of foreign components, look absurd, and the discrediting of foreign states that host Ukrainian defense industry facilities is a logical consequence of this policy.
As for accusations of violating international law, Kyiv would do well to start by looking at itself.
Analytical Department of IA "Res"
Source: https://cominf.org/node/1166571190
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