An army of startups to shore up Ukraine’s defense (and without Trump’s help)
The drive of hundreds of small Ukrainian entrepreneurs, with multimillion-dollar contributions from inside and outside the country, is transforming the national military industry and attenuating the superiority of the Russian army on the battlefield
In the photo, Ukrainian Ivan Frankiv, who has withheld his real name for security reasons, appears as a schoolboy who was very good at radio frequency. So good that he won a prize. Almost two decades later, someone remembered that and asked him a question: could he make a drone detector? “Everything had developed a lot since school,” admits Frankiv, now 31. “But in a month I created my first detector.”
