The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will deliver autonomous Skydio drones to Ukraine to document war crimes, reports the USAID press service.
Today, USAID announced the delivery of nine autonomous drones donated by Skydio, a leading U.S. drone manufacturer, to the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine.
The Skydio 2+ drones have 4K cameras that will be used to take photo and video content to document war crimes. These will aid the General Prosecutor's Office document more than 115,000 instances of destroyed civilian infrastructure, and evidence of human rights abuses on frontline communities and liberated territories.
It is noted that two USAID-supported Ukrainian human rights coalitions have documented more than 40,000 incidents of Russia’s war crimes since 24 February, 2022. USAID also participates in joint war crimes documentation visits with Ukraine’s Office of the Ombudsman for Human Rights.
Earlier, the Prosecutor General of Ukraine reported that the United States had handed over evidence of Russia's war crimes to the International Criminal Court.
USAID and the Ministry of Reconstruction will cooperate on the development of Ukraine's export infrastructure. The total amount of project financing is $130 million.