Zelenskyy: 67 Ukrainian companies now able to intercept jet-powered drones at scale

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that 67 companies across Ukraine are currently capable of intercepting jet-powered drones on a large scale.

The figure suggests that Ukraine's domestic defense industry has developed multiple parallel approaches to countering a newer category of unmanned aerial threats that rely on jet propulsion rather than the piston engines used in earlier generations of attack drones.

Expanding air defense capacity

Jet-powered drones typically fly faster and at higher altitudes than conventional strike drones, making interception more technically demanding. The fact that dozens of companies have already reached this capability points to a broad base of domestic development in this field.

Zelenskyy highlighted the figure as evidence of Ukraine's growing capacity to produce homegrown air defense solutions, a priority that has become increasingly important given the sustained scale of Russian aerial attacks.

The original report did not provide further details on the specific companies involved, the technologies they use, or the extent to which these capabilities have already been deployed in actual combat conditions.