The Verkhovna Rada has approved customs benefits for drones on fiber

The Verkhovna Rada supported the laws of 13305 and 13306 on customs and tax benefits for drone -driving drone manufacturers – MPs reported on June 4.

“The Council was supported by ours with Roman Kostenko #13305 and 13306 Bills on tax and customs benefits for drones operated through the fiber cable. For the whole-302 and 303, ”Yaroslav Zheleznyak wrote in his telegram-channel.

Bill 13306 It provides for the exemption from the value added tax to the customs territory of Ukraine, in particular, optical fibers, fiber-optic harnesses and other fiber optic cables for safety and defense needs at the time of martial law. Project of the law 13305 Release such goods from import duties.

“The data of legislative initiatives provide for the exemption from taxation by customs payments for the production of drones,” – commented the People’s Deputy from the Servant of the People, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Finance, Tax and Customs Policy Danilo Getmantsev.

He expects this to create favorable conditions for the development and production of unmanned systems using optical cable.

At the end of 2024, the chief of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense Kirill Budanov acknowledged that the use of Russian troops with fiber-fiber FPV-aules is a big problem that will need to be solved next year.

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In January 2025, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Alexander Sirsky stated, that the forces of the Russian Federation have increased the proportion of shock UAVs with fiber optic control channel, which pose a threat to combat equipment during its movement. At the same time, according to him, Ukrainian troops also began to use FPV-ovary on the fiber.

In April President Zelensky stated that Ukraine It requires “constant, stable growth of production and supply of all the necessary parts of the unmanned component to the troops.” He mentioned separately about the development of drones on the fiber, reporting that 11 Ukrainian enterprises in Ukraine had already mastered the production of drones with a optic fiber control system.