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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Lynn Rusk

Brit running Ukraine drone factory calls for UK Government funds after MP visit

A group of cross-party MPs travelled to Lviv over the weekend (Richard Woodruff/PA) -

A British volunteer who runs a drone factory in Ukraine is appealing to the UK Government for funding after a visit from a group of cross-party MPs.

Richard Woodruff, from East Sussex, who has been based in Lviv in western Ukraine since June 2022, says his kamikaze drones have destroyed more than 100 million US dollars (£79 million) worth of Russian equipment in the last year.

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