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

Mar 15, 2025 - 01:00
An army of startups to shore up Ukraine’s defense (and without Trump’s help)

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.”

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