Das Verteidigungsministerium der Ukraine wird im ersten Halbjahr 2026 25.000 unbemannte Bodenfahrzeuge (UGVs) unter Vertrag nehmen, so Verteidigungsminister Mykhailo Fedorov angekündigt am 18. Aprilwas einer Verdoppelung der Gesamtbeschaffung im gesamten Jahr 2025 entspricht.
Fedorov veröffentlichte die Ankündigung nach einem Treffen mit inländischen UGV-Herstellern auf Facebook. Er sagte, die Beschaffungsbehörde für Verteidigungsgüter habe bereits 19 Verträge im Wert von etwa 250 Millionen US-Dollar (11 Milliarden UAH) unterzeichnet, und die Lieferungen an Fronteinheiten sollen schrittweise folgen.
Ukraine Orders 25,000 Ground Robots While a Legal Vacuum Slows Delivery
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Ukraine will be a leader on Robot Agriculture and farming after this war is won. This is obvious prediction. Most of these defence companies will have agriculture divisions focussed on land works.
Europeans, it is time to invest some hard cash to these companies.
These last four years have been a whirlwind of new technologies on the battlefield.
VAT is the legal obstacle mentioned –
„The procurement drive is running into a structural obstacle specific to this platform category. The VAT exemption for logistics UGVs expired January 1, 2026, reclassifying them under electric vehicle tax rules rather than the special vehicle category that exempts other military ground equipment from value-added tax.
Maksym Vasylchenko, CEO of Tencore, which manufactures the TerMIT UGV, [told *Militarnyi*](https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ministry-of-defense-of-ukraine-25-000-ugvs/) the gap is the primary bottleneck. “There is no single authority, department, or agency responsible for the UGV sector. UGVs are not covered by the law,” he said, adding the expired exemption forced 20% price revisions on existing contracts.
The Ministry of Defense has allowed contracting to proceed through price adjustments, is establishing a dedicated UGV competence center under the ministry, and said a resolution to the VAT issue is in progress. Manufacturers will also receive 2027 production contracts this year to stabilize supply chains“.
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