Posted on 04/11/2023 9:21:14 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
A Ukrainian fintech founder and drone developer is offering about $540,000 in prize money to the winner of a race to land a drone on Moscow's Red Square.
Volodymyr Yatsenko, the co-founder of Monobank, a Ukrainian online banking service, announced the competition in a Facebook post last week. The competition is open to any Ukrainian drone developers and will take place on May 9, according to the Ukrainian Military Center, a Ukrainian news outlet covering defense.
May 9 in Russia is Victory Day, a time when the country celebrates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.
Yatsenko himself is the developer of the Dovbush drone, which will also attempt the flight to the Russian capital but will not be a part of the competition, according to Forces, a Ukrainian military news blog.
"I hope that this amount will be fairly divided between the manufacturer and the military operators who will successfully complete the task, and will be directed to the improvement of the UAV," Yatsenko wrote on Facebook, according to a translation by Forces.
Yatsenko encouraged participating drone developers to write Ukrainian slogans on the wings of their drones, like "Glory to Ukraine," so that they can be identified when they land in Moscow, Forces reported.
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Lol...that’s funny.
How about a Spetzna prize for giving you a stern talking to?
“land a drone on Moscow’s Red Square”
That’s all you have to do?
Maybe some enterprising young Russian kid can buy a toy drone from Alibaba and fly it at red square. Does he get the money?
Russia should immediately offer $500K for verifiable photos of Yatsenko’s corpse.
Let’s really raise the stakes and make this interesting!
Is Mathias Rust still with us?
Should be doable for a wing-born drone. Not so much for a quadcopter drone.
Biden n co would be happy. Zelensky was installed by Obama for regime change in Russia.
Can’t go green without Russian natural resources and the progressives are never going without slave labor.
Biden let this slip and people called him senile.
He was telling the truth
Must be out of Afghanistan lithium already.
By now a clone of the Chinese balloon model that confounded President Brandon should be available on Alibaba or similar sites. Someone should launch a dozen or so of those and see if the Ruskies can teach Slow Joe a lesson on threat interception.
Tell your Putin to cancel the Holy Lake mosque.
Nothing like bombing civilians on purpose to further your cause
I wonder where this young pilot is today...
Even more ironic is for a Ukrainian drone to land in the middle of Red Square during Putin’s “Victory Day” parade on May 9th.
It’s been reportd that ...”Anything Pentagon/NATO stenographers say about Kiev playing the proverbial “decisive role” in planning and executing strikes is a lie.
The U.S. exercizes total, absolute control of the Ukraine war on a central command basis.”
Yellen is now saying the best way to aid world economy is Ukraine war ending.
So Unless NATO sends troops I highly doubt Ukraine can recover land taken in 2022-2023 let alone what was seized in 2014’
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