DBR conducts searches at drone manufacturer Vyriy Industries
Kyiv • UNN
DBR employees are searching the company Vyriy Industries on suspicion of artificially inflating the cost of drones for the state. The company claims there is a coordinated information campaign against it.
On Tuesday, July 7, employees of the State Bureau of Investigation are conducting searches at the drone manufacturing company Vyriy Industries. Investigators are checking for possible artificial inflation of the cost of drones that were supplied to the state in 2025 under multi-billion contracts. A journalist from UNN was told this by the press service of the SBI.
Details
SBI investigators are checking for possible artificial inflation of the cost of drones that were supplied to the state in 2025 under multi-billion contracts. According to the preliminary version of the investigation, the price of the drones could have been increased due to the unjustified inclusion of inflated production, administrative and other costs in the cost price. It was these circumstances, according to the interlocutor, that became the basis for conducting investigative actions
The company stated that on the eve of this, a coordinated information campaign was launched against the company and its director Oleksiy Babenko, in particular, publications with manipulative and unconfirmed accusations against the company and its head appeared.
Today, law enforcement agencies are conducting searches at the company. Vyriy Industries cooperates with the authorized bodies and provides all necessary information within the framework of current legislation
The company added that more detailed information will be provided later.
Reminder
At the leading academy of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, a Russian "mole" was detained, who was trying to "leak" information about the latest developments of Ukrainian drones to the enemy.