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Spotlight | UAE, Ukraine
Abu Dhabi secures exclusive rights to Ukrainian Shahed interceptors

An employee of the Ukrainian company Skyfall carries out a test flight with a P1-Sun interceptor drone in Ukraine, on 19 March 2026.
An employee of the Ukrainian company Skyfall carries out a test flight with a P1-Sun interceptor drone in Ukraine, on 19 March 2026. © Genya Savilov/AFP
The United Arab Emirates has secured exclusive access to the Shahed drone interceptors made by Ukraine's Skyfall, beating out Saudi Arabia and Qatar. The first deliveries arrived last week, but their deployment is hampered by a lack of operators and incomplete integration into local command systems. [...]
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