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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
World
Fiona Leishman

'My robot planes will change the world – now I want them to help Ukraine at war with Russia'

An aerospace engineer who fled the Soviet Union as a child in the middle of the night has created "robot" planes which he wants used to help his birthplace of Ukraine in the war with Russia.

Gene Avakyan was born in Kyiv but fled the country when he was just nine years old.

He now lives in Florida, US, and has created "robot" planes which he says will "change the world" and the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia.

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