Kyiv ¨C When Yuriy Shelmuk co-founded a company last year making drone signal jammers, he said there was little interest in the devices. It now produces 2,500 a month and has a six-week waiting list.
Demand shifted after the failure of a major Ukrainian counteroffensive in the summer of 2023 that was meant to put invading Russian forces on the back foot. Kyiv cited Russia¡¯s extensive use of unmanned aerial vehicles to spot and strike targets, as well as vast numbers of landmines and troops.
¡°Concentrated, cheap aerial drones stopped all our assaults,¡± Shelmuk said. ¡°There was an understanding that a new game changer had appeared.¡±
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